The Trump administration is currently on the side of OpenAI, supporting its lawsuit against The New York Times. The core issue of the lawsuit is whether it is allowed to use copyrighted writing data to train artificial intelligence models. The New York Times and several other companies accuse OpenAI and its major financial supporter Microsoft of using millions of newspaper articles to train their chatbots without permission. This case was first filed in 2023, and now other newspapers have joined the lawsuit.
The Trump administration supported OpenAI’s lawsuit against The New York Times, arguing in favor of allowing the use of copyrighted writing to train artificial intelligence. The New York Times and several companies accused OpenAI and its major financial supporter, Microsoft, of using millions of newspaper articles to train its chatbots without permission. The lawsuit was filed for the first time in 2023, and other newspapers have joined in.