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Unsealed NYT case filings quote OpenAI and Microsoft executives calling AI products substitutes for journalism

17 sept. 2026 · Collecté automatiquement à partir de sources publiques. Non vérifié par une personne.

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What happened. Previously redacted portions of a court filing in the New York Times copyright case against OpenAI and Microsoft were made public on 17 September 2026. The filing, submitted by the NYT and other news outlets (New York Daily News and seven other newspapers, plus Ziff Davis publications, the Intercept and the Center for Investigative Reporting), quotes OpenAI and Microsoft executives from discovery. Head of ChatGPT Nick Turley is quoted saying publishers face an "existential threat" from the products, which are "largely substitutive" and "will get more and more substitutive as they get better." OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman called large language models "particularly good at predicting text of news articles," "excellent at news," and "very good at any news task," and reacted "ah nice" when told employees found a "hack" around the NYT paywall. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella agreed under oath that chatbots have "substituted ... giving you the information right there on the website on the AI platform versus needing to go to the underlying source." Microsoft's director of applied science Brent Hecht is quoted calling the data acquisition "an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

Why it matters to creators. OpenAI and Microsoft's core fair-use defence is that training on millions of newspaper articles is transformative and does not compete with or replace journalism. The outlets argue these quotes "eviscerate" that defence, because the executives themselves describe the products as substitutes for the very journalism they were trained on. Outcomes in this Manhattan federal case (before Judge Sidney Stein) will shape the legal baseline for training AI on news content.

What is not yet known. These are the plaintiffs' characterisations of discovery quotes, not judicial findings. Microsoft disputes the interpretation, saying Nadella's remarks were about broad changes in how people find information, not copyright conclusions. The case is ongoing.

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