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Don’t be fooled by OpenAI or Microsoft’s claims of altruistic intent
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Despite Nadella later being quoted as saying, “anything that is paywalled should be licensed,” An OpenAI representative admitted that he was “unaware” of any effort to detect or remove paywalled content from training data.
Key facts
- In a separate court filing, Jordan Usdan, GM for Data Strategy and Ops at Microsoft AI, characterized Hecht’s role as adversarial
- There are plenty more wild statements in NYT’s filing from a variety of figures, including Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, and other OpenAI employees
- Many of the most eye-catching quotes from the document come from Microsoft’s Director of Applied Science, Brent Hecht
- OpenAI’s own media and economic experts attributed the drop in referral traffic for sites like the Times directly to AI summaries like Google’s AI Overviews
Summary
The companies knew they were driving them toward Google Zero, and did it anyway. Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times ’ case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. Many of the most eye-catching quotes from the document come from Microsoft’s Director of Applied Science, Brent Hecht. In a separate court filing, Jordan Usdan, GM for Data Strategy and Ops at Microsoft AI, characterized Hecht’s role as adversarial. But whether or not Microsoft wants to own these comments, it’s clear that this came true.
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