美国司法部提交法庭意见书支持OpenAI，主张AI训练使用版权内容属于合理使用

The Trump administration backed OpenAI in its legal battle with the New York Times, arguing in a brief that barring AI companies from training their models on publishers’ output would be unfair and hurt U.S. technological competitiveness.

The legal brief, filed by lawyers for the Department of Justice with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, argues that the Times is seeking an overly narrow definition of “fair use” that would improperly restrict how large language models are trained.

The Times sued OpenAI and its early partner and backer Microsoft in 2023, alleging that the companies had violated the news organization’s copyright protections by training OpenAI on its content.

The Trump administration’s brief argued that training AI models on copyrighted material doesn’t inherently violate copyright laws, and that defining fair use too narrowly would hurt competition for the U.S. broadly and among AI companies, because smaller companies might not be able to afford licensing fees.

“It is not in the public’s interest for the largest technology companies to have an oligopoly on LLM training due to licensing entry barriers that function primarily as large subsidies for old mainstream media companies,” the brief says.

The brief is consistent with both the administration’s longstanding antipathy toward the Times and other mainstream news outlets and President Trump’s prior statements that AI progress is too important for U.S. competitiveness to be hampered by stringent copyright protections.
Justice Department lawyers argue in legal brief that preventing models from being trained on copyrighted material would hurt U.S. competitiveness in AI