US STOCKS: Viewpoint - How Much Of AI Content Is Theft?

The safety of AI has been a big debate recently with the frontier labs telling us they need guardrails from government to protect us all. One of the many reasons some have speculated as to why they are calling for this is their own potential liability to any harm or infringement their own models might have caused. Internal document's from Mother Jones' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft do not shone a very posotive light on the scruples and moral compass of the industry. * Hedgie on X: "Internal documents from Mother Jones' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft show the companies knew exactly what they did. A Microsoft director called it "an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions." OpenAI's president responded "ah nice" to a New York Times paywall hack. Microsoft's research found AI search cut clicks to news articles by 90%. After the lawsuits, OpenAI built a filter that blocked output only from publishers who sued, not to prevent infringement but to limit evidence." * "Both companies built their AI products on content they took without permission, and their own people called it theft internally. If these lawsuits result in licensing obligations or damages at scale, the co