DoJ sides with OpenAI on copyright; dev warns 'shortsighted' win will dry up training data
AlexTensor · x · 2026-09-03
The US Department of Justice has sided with OpenAI against the New York Times, arguing that training LLMs on copyrighted works is not infringement and that treating it as such would hurt American science, prosperity, and national security.
Developer Chomba Bupe pushed back with a cascading argument: if companies can freely scrape creative work and a chatbot can claim it as its own, there is little incentive to produce quality work — which in turn means less high-quality training data for future models. He calls it a 'shortsighted' victory.
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