U.S. government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material
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The Trump administration has filed a 20-page brief in the New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI, defending the company's use of copyrighted material to train its AI models. The brief argues that restricting LLM development would hinder American prosperity and global AI leadership, referencing a Trump executive order. The legal question centers on fair use and whether AI training is 'transformative' enough to be legal. The brief states that constraining LLM development under a misunderstanding of fair use would thwart creative and scientific progress. Prior court cases have largely favored AI companies, such as Judge William Alsup's ruling on Anthropic, which fined the company for using illegal shadow libraries but not for AI training itself. The brief is not a ruling, as the case is in federal district court, but the administration's intervention could still carry weight.
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