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Trump administration backs OpenAI against NYT, argues LLM training on copyrighted works is fair use
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The Trump administration filed a legal brief supporting OpenAI in its copyright dispute with the New York Times, arguing that training large language models on copyrighted works generally constitutes fair use.
If courts adopt this position, it would substantially reduce legal exposure for any organization training AI models on publicly available data. The filing signals executive branch alignment with AI companies on the foundational copyright question underlying multiple ongoing lawsuits.
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The Trump administration filed a brief supporting OpenAI in its copyright dispute with NYT.
The brief argues that training LLMs on copyrighted works generally constitutes fair use.
This represents the executive branch taking a formal position on a core unresolved legal question in AI development.
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