A 92-page brief unsealed on Thursday opens by quoting the same Microsoft employee twice. Dr Brent Hecht, the company’s Director of Applied Science, wrote that people would come to see large models hoovering up their work as “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions”. In a second document he called it perhaps the “largest theft of […] This story continues at The Next Web
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September 21, 2026 at 2:24 PM
A Microsoft scientist called AI training the largest theft of labor
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