US government backs OpenAI in New York Times copyright case
The nonbinding filing says AI training is transformative and urges the court to protect U.S. innovation and national security, with cases seeking billions in damages.
- On Tuesday, the Trump administration filed a brief in Manhattan federal court supporting OpenAI, arguing that training AI models on copyrighted text constitutes fair use under U.S. copyright law.
- The landmark lawsuit, filed in December 2023, accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of unlawfully using millions of articles without permission, seeking to recoup billions of dollars in damages from both companies.
- US attorneys wrote that restricting LLM development would "severely hamper" the Progress of Science and useful Arts, noting that "LLMs are already helping researchers across fields achieve major breakthroughs."
- The Trump administration has leaned heavily on statements of interest, which one official called "incredibly" successful at advancing policy aims; spokespeople for the White House, the Times, and OpenAI did not immediately respond.
- While media outlets like the Associated Press and Axel Springer have signed licensing deals with OpenAI, legal battles persist with other publishers as courts issued diverging rulings on AI training fair use last year.
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The president's team stated that AI training in general is the fair use of copyrighted materials.
The U.S. government takes OpenAI's side in the dispute over AI training. "The New York Times" accuses her of taking sides for tech companies – at the expense of the authors.
While the daily pursues the designer of ChatGPT for having trained his models of artificial intelligence with his articles, the Ministry of Justice considered on Wednesday that there was neither commercial harm nor infringement of copyright, but a requirement of respect for competition and "national security".
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