AI Matters
Why it matters
Unsealed emails reveal Microsoft and OpenAI fears over data scraping
The Verge AI OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web
Unsealed court documents from the New York Times lawsuit show Microsoft and OpenAI executives privately worried that web scraping was causing a doom loop for publishers.
Why it matters
These internal admissions could weaken the companies' legal defense in copyright lawsuits, potentially changing how future AI models are trained.
Latest brief · Oct 19, 2026