Trump admin backs OpenAI in NYT copyright case, calls AI training fair use
The Trump administration filed a statement of interest in the New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, arguing that training large language models on copyrighted works generally constitutes fair use. The brief cites the U.S. interest in maintaining a competitive AI industry.
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Blake Brittain / Reuters : The Trump administration files a brief supporting OpenAI in its dispute with NYT, saying training LLMs on copyrighted works generally constitutes fair use — The Trump administration has filed a brief supporting OpenAI in its dispute with the New York Times (NYT.N) and several other newspapers …
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The Trump administration has intervened in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, making an argument in favor of the AI lab. The landmark lawsuit, filed in December 2023 , alleging that OpenAI unlawfully trained its AI systems on articles from The New York Times and seeks to recoup "billions of dollars" in damages from both Microsoft and OpenAI. This week, the Trump administration filed a statement of interest in the case, supporting OpenAI's argument that it's fair use to train an AI model on copyrighted text. " The New York Times seeks to narrow fair-use doctrine to exclude the training of OpenAl's large language models (L … Read the full story at The Verge.
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"The United States has a strong interest in continuing to develop a robust and competitive artificial intelligence industry that sets the standard for the practice and procedure of AI use globally," the brief reads.