The Trump administration announced its support for the argument of the company that developed “GBT Chat” in a widely followed case that addresses the way it develops its artificial intelligence technologies by collecting and processing millions of news articles.
In a legal memorandum submitted to the court, the US Department of Justice supported OpenAI’s argument that training artificial intelligence models on huge amounts of writing available on the Internet is protected as a form of “fair use” in copyright law.
The ministry said the “creative potential and public benefits” resulting from training large language models on this content “far outweigh any potential competitive harm.”
The ministry added to the court that siding with the New York Times and other publishing houses that believe that OpenAI’s practices violate copyright law would hinder “creative and scientific progress, and undermine American prosperity and economic mobility.”
“The main reason AI models are rapidly reshaping the economy and national security is that they help people, including those working in creative fields, invent things and get things done,” the ministry’s lawyers emphasized.
The department stressed that “creative benefits often overlap with national security interests,” explaining that artificial intelligence models can “help national security officials analyze and infer information from non-copyrighted factual facts, such as those contained in New York Times articles.”
