In the class-action lawsuit involving The New York Times, the US Department of Justice argues that training AI models on copyrighted text qualifies as fair use. The filing directly contradicts a report from the US Copyright Office. Its director was fired by the Trump administration shortly after the report was published.

Letting models train on copyrighted work will preserve ‘American prosperity,’ it says.

The Trump administration filed a statement of interest backing OpenAI's fair use defense in the NYT copyright lawsuit, citing national security