In January 2023 a Microsoft director wrote an internal memo calling AI scraping "the largest theft of labor in human history". On September 17 a federal court unsealed the summary-judgment filings in the New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, and that line is now public, next to quotes from Satya Nadella, Greg Brockman and ChatGPT's own product lead. If your team trains on data it didn't license, or writes candid memos about it, this OpenAI lawsuit is the one to read. ...