Trump administration backs OpenAI in copyright lawsuit
Translated from Dutch and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
At a glance
- The US government has sided with OpenAI in a copyright lawsuit involving The New York Times.
- In a court filing, the administration said the United States seeks global dominance in artificial intelligence and defended OpenAI’s use of copyrighted material to train AI applications.
The Trump administration has joined OpenAI’s side in a copyright lawsuit involving The New York Times, backing the company’s argument over the use of protected material to train artificial intelligence systems.
The government set out its position in a court document. It argued that the maker of ChatGPT should be allowed to use copyrighted works when training AI applications.
The filing also linked the legal dispute to a broader US ambition: pursuing “world dominance in AI.”
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Originally published by VRT NWS in Dutch. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.