Trump admin backs OpenAI vs NYT, arguing LLM training on copyrighted text is fair use
ChrisGPT · x · 2026-09-03
The Trump administration filed a brief backing OpenAI against the NYT, arguing that training LLMs on copyrighted text should generally count as fair use because training is "extraordinarily transformative." It explicitly ties this to scientific progress, economic growth and national security, saying the wrong fair-use interpretation would hurt US competitiveness — the clearest signal yet of where the federal government wants the training-data precedent to land, while still acknowledging artists need some protection.
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