Authored by Stacy Robinson via The Epoch Times,
AI executives allegedly knew their products could unlawfully harm businesses, flood the market with inferior work, and damage human society's creative capacity as a whole, according to communications newly revealed in a lawsuit.
Those internal documents were cited in a lawsuit brought by The New York Times, Mother Jones, and other news outlets alleging OpenAI and Microsoft's AI tools stole their work, and are harming their bottom lines.
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models 'hoovering up' all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions," one Microsoft document said, according to a legal filing first reported by Mother Jones on Sept. 22.
The 'Doom Loop'
One Microsoft document also allegedly indicated that the company was aware that the AI model outputs would result in fewer clicks on websites - including its own. Fewer clicks means less money, which disincentivizes creativity and leads to less, and maybe lower-quality, work.
"Our AI content strategy has started a 'doom loop' that will hurt the performance of our models and the entire web at the same time," the document said.
In evaluating the suits, courts will look at how the new material produced by AI models affects the source material's moneymaking capabilities.
According to the filing, Nick Turley, OpenAI's head of ChatGPT
