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title: "NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an \"existential threat\" from AI, and a Microsoft director called AI training \"an astonishing theft\" (Financial Times)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/nyt-court-filing-chatgpts-head-wrote-that-publishers-face-an-f5a3a636
published: 2026-09-17T19:35:01.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an "existential threat" from AI, and a Microsoft director called AI training "an astonishing theft" (Financial Times)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-09-17 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/nyt-court-filing-chatgpts-head-wrote-that-publishers-face-an-f5a3a636

Financial Times : NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an "existential threat" from AI, and a Microsoft director called AI training "an astonishing theft" — Lawyers say AI co-founder Greg Brockman was ‘motivated by the gazillions’ he hoped to gain from models trained on copyrighted content

In this story: [Greg Brockman](https://frontiernewswire.com/people/greg-brockman), [AI copyright](https://frontiernewswire.com/topics/ai-copyright), [The New York Times](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/the-new-york-times)

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/260917/p36#a260917p36)

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