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AI training built on fair use looks shaky when the companies' own people call it "astonishing theft"

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AI training built on fair use looks shaky when the companies' own people call it "astonishing theft"

The Decoder · Sep 18, 2026, 3:27 PM UTC

Internal emails and sworn testimony undercut OpenAI and Microsoft's fair use defense. A Microsoft director described the practice as the "largest theft of labor in human history," while OpenAI's head of ChatGPT wrote that the products "are largely substitutive, period.…