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AI Firms Knew Chatbots Were an ‘Existential Threat’ to Journalists, Court Docs Show

A Microsoft executive called OpenAI's use of publishers' material "the largest theft of labor in human history."

AI Firms Knew Chatbots Were an ‘Existential Threat’ to Journalists, Court Docs Show

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