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OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web

Global Published 19 September 2026, 02:07 · archived 18 Sep 2026

Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the "largest theft of labor in human history," and that it […]

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