Partially unsealed summary judgment motions filed by news publishers on Thursday reveal that OpenAI and Microsoft executives admitted in court testimony that their AI products have a substitutive effect on news publishing content. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated that conversations with chatbots have "substituted" users' visits to publisher websites; OpenAI senior executive Nick Turley directly said, "Our products are substitutive to a large extent." Dr. Brent Hecht, Director of Applied Science at Microsoft, claimed that the unauthorized copying of millions of news articles could constitute "the largest labor theft in human history." OpenAI policy director Jack Clark also wrote internally that the company's work would increasingly create systems capable of replacing the labor of those who define society's "culture." Furthermore, according to Bloomberg, when OpenAI employees informed company president Greg Brockman about bypassing The New York Times' paywall to aid data scraping, Brockman responded, "Ah, nice."