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Oct 2, 2026
MichaelHOST
So, but...
MichaelHOST
Anyway, Barrett's here and Brent.
MichaelHOST
Brent,
Shannon GHOST
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hex.
MichaelHOST
They're here as well, and they're flying.
MichaelHOST
And Jeremy actually brought the B-2, the Kamparf B-2.
MichaelHOST
One of Brent's friends is a B-2 pilot, and so he's here as well.
Jim LoveHOST
A Microsoft executive warned that AI's use of other people's work could amount to perhaps the largest theft of labor in human history.
Jim LoveHOST
Mother Jones reported that those words came from Brent Hecht, Microsoft's Director of Applied Science.
Jim LoveHOST
How did the publication uncover them? Through its own copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft.
Jim LoveHOST
Internal communications obtained during the litigation were quoted in a September 4th legal brief filed by the publishers.
Mark HurstHOST
The headline is Microsoft executive called AI scraping, quote, the largest theft of labor in human history.
Mark HurstHOST
This was Microsoft director of applied science, Brent Hecht.
Mark HurstHOST
repeatedly warned in documents.
Mark HurstHOST
This, by the way, Microsoft is in a lawsuit with the New York Times.
Mark HurstHOST
It's not actually leaked documents, but the lawyers or the legal teams are getting access to these internal documents.
Mark HurstHOST
That's why we're learning this.
Mark HurstHOST
So this director of applied science said in one of these documents that scraping news from other sites for the purpose of training their AI was, quote, an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.
Mark HurstHOST
And he called it perhaps the, as I said, quote, the largest theft of labor in human history.
AnnaHOST
The dossier highlights court filings that were just unsealed in the massive New York Times lawsuit against Microsoft.
AnnaHOST
These filings revealed a private internal communication from Microsoft's own science director, Brent Hecht.
Etienne NewmanHOST
A very damaging revelation.
AnnaHOST
He privately described AI training scraping as, quote, the largest theft of labor in human history.
Etienne NewmanHOST
That is a devastating internal admission.
AnnaHOST
When the science director of the primary corporation investing billions into this technology privately acknowledges that the foundational methodology, scraping the entire internet to train the weights, constitutes a historical expropriation of human intellectual labor, the legal and ethical foundation of the entire industry begins to fracture.
AnnaHOST
The legal debate between transformative fair use and copyright infringement is definitely reaching a boiling point.
Etienne NewmanHOST
It is.