Microsoft Exec Called AI Scraping ‘the Largest Theft of Labor in Human History,’ New Unredacted Filings Reveal
A newly unredacted brief in The New York Times’ copyright case quotes Microsoft’s Director of Applied Science, Brent Hecht, calling AI scraping perhaps “the largest theft of labor in human history”. We look at what the filing actually says, the seven channels of scraping it describes, Microsoft’s own click-through data showing drops of up to 93%, how the quotes map onto fair use, and what publishers and AI buyers should do now.