The Department of Justice filed a brief supporting OpenAI in its legal dispute with The New York Times over the use of millions of articles to train its models.
The government’s position: that kind of training can qualify as fair use, and ruling otherwise could harm innovation, national security, and US competitiveness.
This is no longer just a fight between an AI company and a newspaper. The US government has stepped in directly on behalf of the AI industry.
Whatever the court decides could become one of the most important legal precedents for a question the whole industry is waiting on: how much of other people’s content can AI models actually use?
Worth watching closely, especially if you work anywhere near content, media, or marketing.