A Microsoft director privately warned that large-scale AI data scraping could be "the largest theft of labor in human history". The internal documents show that executives from both Microsoft and OpenAI recognized that mass scraping undermined fair use concepts and posed an existential threat to publishers: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/microsoft-exec-called-ai-scraping-the-largest-theft-of-labor-in-human-history-new-unredacted-filings-reveal