The Trump administration is supporting OpenAI in the NYT copyright lawsuit
TL;DR
The Trump administration has intervened in The New York Times copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, arguing in favor of the AI lab. The suit, filed in December 2023, alleges that OpenAI unlawfully trained its systems on Times articles and seeks billions in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft. In a statement of interest, the administration backs the position that training a large language model on copyrighted text counts as fair use.
Nauti's Take
Legal clarity around training would be a real advantage for anyone building their own models, and a firm fair use line would make planning far easier. The catch sits in the process: a political filing is no ruling, and the court can still decide otherwise.
Anyone licensing or scraping training data should keep documenting provenance carefully.
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