Microsoft and OpenAI employees express concerns over AI training on news articles

According to court documents cited by The New York Times, internal teams at Microsoft and OpenAI have raised significant concerns regarding the use of millions of news articles to develop AI systems. Microsoft employees have debated whether OpenAI's practices constitute a massive theft of labor that could threaten the quality of their own large language models. Meanwhile, some within OpenAI worry that ChatGPT may discourage users from accessing original news sources.