Feds back OpenAI: training on copyrighted news is fair use
The Justice Department filed a brief in the landmark New York Times v. OpenAI case, arguing that training AI on copyrighted articles is fair use whose benefits outweigh any harm, including for national security. The Times fired back that the administration sides with "trillion-dollar AI companies at the expense of the countless American creators whose work they stole." The filing doesn't bind the court, but it puts Washington squarely behind the industry's position in a case likely to set precedent for every model builder.