Microsoft knows it robbed publishers to train AI. It just doesn’t care

Ever since OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot and its offspring Microsoft Copilot were launched, critics have pointed out that both products — and all other generative AI tools — have been built using billions of dollars of stolen intellectual property. Training AI models requires vast amounts of written material, especially books, newspapers, and magazine articles. OpenAI, Microsoft, and other Big AI firms have been stealing every piece of intellectual property (IP) they can find for training.