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Newly unsealed court documents from the New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal internal admissions that the companies' data-scraping practices were creating a 'doom loop' damaging the broader web ecosystem. Internal materials reportedly described the scraping as the 'largest theft of labor in human history' and a 'complete mockery' of fair use, with quotes attributed in part to Microsoft's Director of Applied Science, Brent Hecht. The revelations add significant weight to the Times' case and to broader legal and ethical scrutiny of how AI companies source training data.