Court Filing Shows Microsoft Exec Called AI Training the "Largest Labor Theft in Human History"

The court documents made public this week show that Brent Hecht, Microsoft's director of applied science, had cautioned that people could view large language models as involving a form of theft on an unprecedented scale. He stated that generative AI might represent the largest instance of labor theft in human history. These remarks appear to go against the official position taken by both Microsoft and OpenAI in their legal response to the action brought by the news organizations.