theft

12 stories and discussions about theft, aggregated from every source we track.

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Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut…

930 points•pluc•13 days ago•819 comments•
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The NYT argues that OpenAI and Microsoft infringed upon its copyright over thousands of news articles.

186 points•jonbaer•11 days ago•49 comments•
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You may have seen the headlines about a Microsoft employee calling AI scraping “the largest theft of labor in human history.” It made the rounds on social media, with plenty of people i…

4 points•beardyw•7 days ago•1 comment•
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4 points•diginova•11 days ago•0 comments•
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Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.

3 points•pluc•4 days ago•1 comment•
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"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

3 points•xqcgrek2•6 days ago•1 comment•
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Data centers are good. I like data centers. Theft is bad. I don’t like theft.

2 points•mikelgan•7 days ago•0 comments•
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Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.

2 points•vinyl7•8 days ago•1 comment•
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Elastic’s Agentic SOC is vulnerable to credential theft and system manipulation via indirect prompt injection in SOC data feeds. No human-in-the-loop is required.

1 points•hackerBanana•1 day ago•0 comments•
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Elastic’s Agentic SOC is vulnerable to credential theft and system manipulation via indirect prompt injection in SOC data feeds. No human-in-the-loop is required.

1 points•Portical•2 days ago•0 comments•
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A sideloaded package turns a Microsoft-signed binary into an OAuth token theft tool. No phishing domain, no spoofed UI, no browser. Here's how to detect it.

1 points•speckx•7 days ago•0 comments•
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For years, Microsoft and OpenAI have fought to keep certain information out of the public eye in their fight with news organizations that have accused the AI firms of teaming up to violate copyright laws by stealing tons of news content to train AI. However, now the details that should never have been marked confidential are starting to leak. In a motion for summary judgment that was unsealed Thursday from news plaintiffs led by The New York Times, internal documents are exposed that news groups alleged show exactly how Microsoft and OpenAI viewed the threat to news before unleashing new AI products like ChatGPT and Copilot. Perhaps most explosively, Microsoft Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht repeatedly warned in documents that scraping news for AI training was “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” calling it perhaps the “largest theft of labor in human history,” news orgs said. In another document, Hecht contradicted Microsoft and OpenAI’s argument that training AI on news content is fair use, suggesting that the plan to widely scrape news made “a complete mockery of the idea of ‘fair use.’” Read full article Comments

0 points•Ashley Belanger•13 days ago•0 comments

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