This might be the biggest admission in any of the 100+ AI copyright lawsuits. OpenAI & Microsoft execs admit the case is about “the largest …

This might be the biggest admission in any of the 100+ AI copyright lawsuits. OpenAI & Microsoft execs admit the case is about “the largest theft of labor in human history”, that publishers face an “existential threat” from their products, and that those products “are largely substitutive, period.” They are right, of course. But it is huge that they have admitted it. woah. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-09-17