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The Trump administration is throwing its weight behind OpenAI in a copyright lawsuit brought by The New York Times accusing the tech company of mass theft for using the publication’s content to train its AI system.
In a brief backing OpenAI filed in New York federal court on Tuesday, the Justice Department argues that training on copyrighted material constitutes fair use, the legal doctrine in intellectual property law that allows creators to build upon copyrighted works without a license.
The motion appears to be the first time the government has weighed in on novel issues raised by the tech that could have far-reaching implications on news and music publishers and studios in a series of cases against AI companies.
In a statement, a spokesperson for the Times said the administration is “siding with a handful of trillion-dollar AI companies at the expense of the countless American creators whose work they stole.”
