US President Donald Trump’s administration sided with OpenAI in a lawsuit brought by the New York Times, defending training AI models on copyrighted works, according to a court document filed Tuesday.<\/p>\n
In late 2023, the New York Times sued ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft, its main investor, alleging that the companies’ powerful artificial intelligence models used millions of articles for training without permission.<\/p>\n
Copyright has been a major battleground for the generative AI sector, with publishers, musicians and artists lawyering up or cutting deals to get paid for technology that is being built with their content.<\/p>\n
The Justice Department said in a 20-page document that the “creative possibilities and public benefits that (large language model) training advances far outweigh any competitive harm.”<\/p>\n
“Constraining LLM development under a misunderstanding of fair use doctrine would thwart such creative and scientific progress while hindering American prosperity and economic mobility,” the document read.<\/p>\n
The Justice Department added that the Times’ interpretation of the law would create an anti-competitive entry barrier that “function primarily as large subsidies for old mainstream media companies.”<\/p>\n
Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward said on Wednesday that Trump has made clear that “AI dominance is critical” to national security, prosperity and economic mobility.<\/p>\n
“This Administration will never let our Nation be at a disadvantage relative to our foreign adversaries based on a plainly incorrect understanding of copyright law,” Woodward wrote on X.<\/p>\n
The Times’ lawsuit partly hinges on the limited “fair use” exception, which permits copyrighted work to be used without the rights holders’ consent.<\/p>\n
The Justice Department argued that the training of AI models on written works is “exceedingly transformative,” allowing it to benefit from the exception.<\/p>\n
Graham James, a spokesman for the New York Times, told US media that the Justice Department was siding with “trillion-dollar AI companies” at the expense of American creators.<\/p>\n
“The administration’s proposal to let companies take that content without permission or compensation would undermine the sustainability of the human-created content that a healthy society depends on, and which AI needs to function,” James said in a statement.<\/p>\n
In July, a US judge approved a $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and several authors who claimed the San Francisco company illegally copied their work to train its AI model, Claude.<\/p>\n
It was a partial victory for Anthropic — a judge ruled that the company’s use of books to train Claude was transformative enough to constitute “fair use” under US law but that other uses of pirated materials were not.<\/p>\n
In May, multiple publishers, including Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier and Turow, sued Meta in a New York court for allegedly stealing copyrighted content.<\/p>\n
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