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

The Verge AI · article · Sep 18, 2026 · UTC

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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First collected: 2026-09-19T20:26:32.566Z. This is not the publication date.