‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
404 Media Jason Koebler ● Covered by 3 sources
Microsoft and OpenAI executives admitted in court filings that large language models were trained on content they characterized as stolen and that generative AI has created a “doom loop” harming the web. The filing cites that clicks to New York Times and other news sites on Bing fell by more than 90%. As a result, the New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI now includes unredacted internal statements and sworn testimony that strengthen the copyright case and its claims about economic impact on content creators.
Why it matters
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."