U.S. Government Backs OpenAI in Copyright Case

The Trump administration has entered the ongoing litigation between OpenAI and The New York Times, filing a brief with the United States District Court, Southern District of New York.

The brief says the United States has a strong interest in the court rejecting the argument that training large language models on copyrighted texts violates copyright law.

The filing places the U.S. government behind OpenAI’s position in the dispute. The case concerns whether using copyrighted text to train large language models violates copyright law.