Trump Admin Files Brief Backing OpenAI Against NYT, Calling LLM Training Fair Use

zephyr_z9 · x · 2026-09-03

The Trump administration filed a brief supporting OpenAI in its copyright dispute with the New York Times. The DOJ said the US has a strong interest in rejecting claims that training LLMs on copyrighted texts infringes copyright, citing national security grounds, and argued training is "extraordinarily transformative" and thus fair use.

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