2026-09-19 · Fuente：iXBT News
Internal Microsoft and OpenAI records unsealed September 17 at The New York Times' motion show how both companies' leadership weighed the threat to publishers before ChatGPT and Copilot launched.
Internal records from Microsoft and OpenAI that had been kept under seal were made public on September 17, after The New York Times and a group of other news publishers petitioned for their disclosure. According to iXBT News, the documents illuminate how the leadership of both companies gauged the risk their products posed to the news industry in the run-up to the launches of ChatGPT and Copilot.
The most striking element is an indictment voiced from within one of the companies involved. A Microsoft technology lead characterized AI-driven parsing of news output as "the biggest theft of labor in history," framing the wholesale ingestion of journalism by AI systems as a form of theft without precedent in the industry.
Beyond the rhetorical flashpoint, the unsealed material matters for what it documents: internal assessments, prepared at Microsoft and OpenAI before either assistant reached the market, of how automated consumption of publisher content could affect the press. The publishers behind the disclosure motion — with The New York Times among them — secured access to deliberations that until now had remained confidential.
For the broader AI ecosystem, the release lands at a sensitive moment in the standoff between content owners and model developers. Records showing that executives at both firms weighed consequences for news organizations before their products went live give publishers fresh material in their disputes over how AI companies use proprietary content, and could sharpen arguments about what the companies knew and when.
The timing of the disclosure — September 17 — and the identity of the movants underline that the publishers are pursuing transparency about internal decision-making, not only compensation. The episode also underscores how contested the treatment of journalistic labor in the AI era has become, with a senior technologist at one of the field's largest vendors now on record calling the practice outright theft.
Etiquetas: Microsoft · OpenAI · ChatGPT · Copilot · The New York Times · Copyright
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