Executives at OpenAI and Microsoft acknowledged they could undermine their own content sources, according to a new filing in a New York Times copyright lawsuit.

Staff at the tech companies knew their AI tools posed an 'existential threat' to publishers, the filing indicates. The acknowledgment raises questions about how AI firms view the content ecosystem they rely on.

The New York Times copyright lawsuit continues to surface internal communications that shed light on what executives understood about the impact of their products.