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AI FIRMS' OWN WORDS UNDERMINE FAIR USE DEFENSE
Internal communications from OpenAI and Microsoft executives contradict their legal arguments that AI training on copyrighted material qualifies as fair use. A Microsoft director called the practice the "largest theft of labor in human history."
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AI training built on fair use looks shaky when the companies' own people call it "astonishing theft"
Internal emails and sworn testimony undercut OpenAI and Microsoft's fair use defense. A Microsoft director described the…