The DOJ filed a brief siding with OpenAI in its copyright lawsuit with the New York Times, arguing that training AI systems on copyrighted material counts as fair use. The DOJ’s brief does not completely align with the Trump Administration’s AI framework released earlier this year.
\n\nPolitico reports that the DOJ brief, filed Tuesday in New York federal court, is the first time the federal government has weighed in on copyright lawsuits over AI training. The Times sued OpenAI over what it calls mass theft of its journalism, and the case could shape a wave of similar lawsuits from news and music publishers and film studios against AI companies.
\n\nThe DOJ brief leans hard on national security. Restricting how AI companies train their models, the department wrote, would put the United States at a disadvantage against rivals abroad. “Rules of law that make it significantly more difficult to develop a robust AI industry in the United States therefore threaten national security and give a competitive advantage to foreign adversaries who are not so encumbered,” the department argued. It cited AI’s use in analyzing intelligence, improving weapon systems and giving battlefield recommendations, including missile strike targeting, as things the country risks…
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