It's a memo taken out of context from Jan 2023, literally 1 month after the ChatGPT public release. All the article cites:

> The brief cited an internal memo dated January 2023 by Microsoft director of Applied Science Brent Hecht, where he allegedly said, “Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” and also called it “the largest theft of labor in human history.”

No need to add religion into this. Let MS employees write their emails. If anything, what he said a month after ChatGPT's release was prophetic.