# OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web

**Published:** September 18, 2026
**Author:** Terrence O’Brien
**Source:** The Verge — AI
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/openai-and-microsoft-knew-they-were-starting-a-doom-loop-for-the-web

Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the…

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**Tags:** #OpenAI #Microsoft

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