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OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web

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OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop' for the web.

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The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the "largest theft of labor in human history," and that it […]

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