Microsoft says virtually nobody was grabbing NYT articles through its chatbot
Summary
In legal filings against copyright claims from publishers including The New York Times, Microsoft says its Copilot chatbot rarely reproduces full sentences from news articles or books, let alone substantive chunks that could substitute for the original. During discovery, Microsoft provided 8.2 million Copilot chat logs to an expert hired by publishers, chosen because they hit keywords implicating news sites. The analysis showed only 59,545 logs potentially involved copyrighted content.
Bubble analysis
This news concerns AI copyright litigation, but it is only tangentially related to the core bubble question of AI investment (capex, valuations, revenue). It affects legal risks for AI companies, but does not directly indicate bubble inflation or deflation.
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