Source: The Verge
Internal communications show OpenAI and Microsoft explicitly discussed how scaling AI training on web-scraped data would eventually exhaust available training material—and proceeded anyway, treating content depletion as a known externality rather than a problem to solve. This shifts the lawsuit from copyright infringement to deliberate resource extraction: AI companies betting they can monetize publicly-created content faster than creators can replenish it. The court documents amount to a structural admission about how the AI industry plans to sustain itself.