According to CoinMeta, The New York Times accused OpenAI of using “deceptive” methods to scrape paid content. Newly unsealed court documents detail the internal communications between researcher Nick Ryder and president Greg Brockman of OpenAI; Ryder mentioned a “hacking method to bypass The New York Times’ paywall.” Brockman responded, “Oh, indeed.” The documents also contain explosive internal warnings about the impact of artificial intelligence on the news industry. A Microsoft executive described artificial intelligence training as “the biggest theft of labor in human history.” The person in charge of OpenAI, Nick Turley, is said to have admitted that artificial intelligence products are “to a large extent substitutable, without a doubt,” and may become “even more substitutable” as technology progresses.