Microsoft says virtually nobody was grabbing NYT articles through its chatbot
THE SO WHAT
Microsoft’s defense—that Copilot rarely reproduces full NYT sentences—signals how AI copyright fights are shifting from training data to substitution and traceable output. If you deploy LLMs over third-party content, you need your own telemetry on excerpt length, frequency, and user behavior to defend against similar claims or to settle them on data, not anecdotes.
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