The Shadow Web: How Big Tech is Hijacking Journalism The recent revelations about Microsoft and OpenAI's web scraping practices have sent shockwaves through the tech industry.
Court documents unsealed in a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal that executives from both companies viewed the scraping of millions of news articles as an "existential threat" to journalism, with one Microsoft executive calling it the "largest theft of labor in human history.
" This isn't just about copyright law; it's about the fundamental relationship between big tech and the media.