The Justice Department backed OpenAI on training LLMs as fair use

The Trump administration filed a statement of interest supporting OpenAI against the New York Times. The Justice Department told the court the United States has a strong interest in rejecting any argument that training LLMs on copyrighted texts violates copyright law, including on national-security grounds, and called training extraordinarily transformative and thus fair use. That is the government's argument, not a ruling. The Times says the administration is siding with AI companies at the exp