CEX NEWS message: The New York Times accuses OpenAI of using deceptive methods to scrape paid content. Newly unsealed court documents show that an OpenAI researcher, Nick Ryder, mentioned to CEO Greg Brockman hacking methods to bypass the New York Times paywall, and Brockman replied, “That’s right.” The documents also include statements from a Microsoft executive saying that AI training is “the largest labor theft in human history,” and ChatGPT head Nick Turley admitting that the company’s AI products are “basically interchangeable.”