OpenAI and Microsoft filed a motion accusing plaintiffs' lawyers at Susman Godfrey of paying for research evidence, concealing that payment, and improperly introducing it in the consolidated copyright infringement lawsuit. The filing relates to a preprint study on AI market dilution by Jane Ginsburg and others, which OpenAI alleges was funded by the plaintiffs' legal team in violation of discovery rules.
A Microsoft employee's characterization of AI scraping as 'the largest theft of labor in human history' does not change legal reality: copyright infringement is distinct from theft under law, and AI training may constitute fair use. The article argues that emotional language about infringement shouldn't override factual legal analysis, citing Supreme Court precedent and a judge's ruling that Anthropic's training of Claude was transformative fair use.