A Microsoft scientist called AI training the largest theft of labor
THE SO WHAT
When a senior Microsoft scientist calls large-scale model training “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” the IP and labor framing around training data is no longer fringe. Expect more aggressive demands for compensation, provenance, and opt-out—if your product depends on scraped or user-generated data, get ahead of this with explicit data policies and licensing.
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