U.S. government filed a brief supporting OpenAI’s fair-use argument in The New York Times copyright lawsuit over AI training data
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The Trump administration intervened in The New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against OpenAI by filing a brief supporting OpenAI’s position that training large language models on copyrighted text can qualify as fair use without a license. The filing cites a prior Trump executive order and may affect how the court applies the fair-use doctrine to AI training, in a case seeking billions of dollars from both OpenAI and Microsoft.