NYT vs OpenAI
2026-09-18 18:15:50.601004+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
If we really wanted to put the brakes on AI, seems like criminal copyright charges, collectively and individually, could shut these fuckers right down.
Ars Technica: Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
Via Taggart @mttaggart@infosec.exchange who observes:
Not a lawyer, but this does seem to basically wreck the Fair Use argument, and fairly demonstrate not only infringement, but knowledge of infringement.
SnoopJ @SnoopJ@hacyderm.io has a thread looking at details, including noting that:
【Cloudflare’s CEO cited data showing the ratio of webpages scraped to visitors sent: in 2015, Google scraped two pages for every visitor (2:1); by June 2025, that ratio was 18:1 for Google and 1,500:1 for OpenAI】
and:
【Mr. Nadella testified that...if he “had been made aware that OpenAI had scraped and trained on information that was behind a paywall,” he would have “invoked [Microsoft’s right to] require[] OpenAI to retrain its models.”】
under the bus with you, little fuckers. satya aint goin down for the riffraff