OpenAI's AI-Web Economics and Copyright Dispute Intensifies

Reporting on unsealed documents portrays OpenAI as aware of memorization, declining publisher referrals, paywalled-content access, and a potentially self-undermining web-content supply chain. Reported Microsoft data showing a 93% reduction in New York Times click-throughs and an internal "doom loop" warning add economic-impact context, but the account remains one-sided and disputed. A separate proposed lawsuit alleges coordination among major AI labs over development slowdowns; that claim remains unproven.