Court documents unsealed in the New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft by 19 September 2026 show the companies' own executives acknowledged they were starting a "doom loop"—LLMs trained on stolen content that increasingly consume AI-generated material, degrading web quality. The filings confirm the companies knew they were destructively cannibalizing published content.
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"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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RE: https:// hachyderm.io/@ell1e/1170256822 94599667 seems like the Microslop Execs are themselves now siding with a "slop is theft" narrative: Quote: This case is about, as Microsoft's Director of Applied Science put it, "an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions"; SF1437, perhaps "the largest theft of labor in human history." SF1652. Defendants repeatedly copied millions of Plaintiffs' c
They’re not even pretending anymore. https://www. 404media.co/doom-loop-openai-a nd-microsoft-admits-llms-are-destroying-the-web-and-built-on-theft/
“It’s easy to see why the AI companies wanted to hide this from the public.” https://www. 404media.co/doom-loop-openai-a nd-microsoft-admits-llms-are-destroying-the-web-and-built-on-theft/
OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” https://www. 404media.co/doom-loop-openai-a nd-microsoft-admits-llms-are-destroying-the-web-and-built-on-theft/
Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the "largest theft of labor in human history," and that it […]
‘Doom Loop’: # OpenAI and # Microsoft Admits # LLM Are Destroying Web and Built on Theft # AI execs admitt what critics have been saying all along: # Largelanguagemodels are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what an executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and “largest theft of labor in human history.” MSFT document said # generativeAI products hav
‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft A court filing reveals OpenAI and Microsoft executives admit LLMs are trained on stolen content, cannibalize publishers’ revenue, and trigger a 'doom loop' that undermines the web. https://www. 404media.co/doom-loop-openai-a nd-microsoft-admits-llms-are-destroying-the-web-and-built-on-theft/