{"id":35,"date":"2026-09-04T14:29:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/javiersiriani.com\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2026-09-04T14:29:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:29:48","slug":"the-us-government-just-picked-a-side-in-the-new-york-times-vs-openai-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/javiersiriani.com\/blog\/the-us-government-just-picked-a-side-in-the-new-york-times-vs-openai-case\/","title":{"rendered":"The US government just picked a side in the New York Times vs. OpenAI case."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government&#8217;s position: that kind of training can qualify as fair use, and ruling otherwise could harm innovation, national security, and US competitiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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&#8217;s content can AI models actually use?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Worth watching closely, especially if you work anywhere near content, media, or marketing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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&hellip; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/javiersiriani.com\/blog\/the-us-government-just-picked-a-side-in-the-new-york-times-vs-openai-case\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The US government just picked a side in the New York Times vs. OpenAI case.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[9,14,16],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ia","tag-ia","tag-nyt","tag-openia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/javiersiriani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/javiersiriani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/javiersiriani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/javiersiriani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/javiersiriani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/javiersiriani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/javiersiriani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/javiersiriani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/javiersiriani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/javiersiriani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/javiersiriani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}