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Court filings allege OpenAI/Microsoft flagged a “doom loop” for web data
Sep 18, 2026SOURCE: theverge.com
SO WHAT
The window for choosing governance is narrowing as training-scale extraction destabilizes the medium humans use to deliberate, learn, and transact—then calls it “efficiency.”
Unsealed New York Times-related documents cite internal warnings that model training via scraping would degrade the web. The signal is less about labor loss than an inversion of information ecosystems.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.