OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web.

Though, the company has tried to distance itself from Hecht’s assertions. 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 made a “complete mockery of the idea of fair use. Microsoft spokesperson Alex Haurek told The Verge that “These comments ref …
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Many of the most eye-catching quotes from the document come from Microsoft’s Director of Applied Science, Brent Hecht.