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# Microsoft Called AI Training Data Scraping 'Largest Theft of Labor'
- URL: https://adjacent.media/signals/microsoft-called-ai-training-data-scraping-largest-theft-of-labor/
- Published: 2026-09-18T23:09:20.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-18T23:09:20.000Z
- Description: Microsoft’s internal legal filings contradict its public stance on AI training data. The company privately called OpenAI’s scraping practices massive intellectual property theft while doing the same to The New York Times.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #signal, theme-culture, media, journalism, regulation/policy

Source: [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/microsoft-exec-called-ai-scraping-the-largest-theft-of-labor-in-human-history-new-unredacted-filings-reveal/?ref=adjacent.media)

Microsoft's internal legal filings contradict its public stance on AI training data. The company privately called OpenAI's scraping practices massive intellectual property theft while doing the same to The New York Times. This matters because it shows how AI companies separate their messaging: expressing concern about copyright in court while building trillion-dollar models on uncompensated content. The unsealed documents shift the conversation from abstract fair-use debates to concrete admissions that Silicon Valley insiders view their own practices as indefensible under oath.