The Justice Department backed OpenAI against The New York Times.
The Justice Department filed a statement of interest on 1 September in the New York Times copyright case. It told Judge Sidney Stein that training on news articles is fair use and serves national security. This is the first time the government has taken a side on AI training data.
Why it mattersA win here would weaken every writer and publisher suing an AI company over training. The Times says the government is siding with trillion-dollar firms against the people whose work they used.
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