Trump administration sides with OpenAI in lawsuit against New York Times | Technology | The Guardian
Trump administration sides with OpenAI in lawsuit against New York Times | Technology | The Guardian
摘要: OpenAI chief executive officer Sam Altman speaks at the G20 innovation ministerial summit in North Carolina on Wednesday.
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OpenAI chief executive officer Sam Altman speaks at the G20 innovation ministerial summit in North Carolina on Wednesday.
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OpenAI chief executive officer Sam Altman speaks at the G20 innovation ministerial summit in North Carolina on Wednesday.
Photograph: Jonathan Drake/Reuters
Trump administration sides with OpenAI in lawsuit against New York Times
The Times and many companies are accusing OpenAI of misusing their material to train AI systems without compensation
Trump administration
is supporting OpenAI in a lawsuit against the New York Times, arguing in favor of the use of copyrighted writing to train artificial intelligence.
The Times accuses
and its largest financial backer, Microsoft, of using millions of newspaper articles without permission to train OpenAI’s popular chatbot. Other newspapers have joined in the suit, first filed in 2023.
In a brief filed in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, the US government weighed in for the first time on lawsuits over the tense battle over AI and copyright. A brief has advisory rather than legal weight but could bolster tech companies as they fight the claims.
“The United States has a strong interest in continuing to develop a robust and competitive artificial intelligence industry that sets the standard for the practice and procedure of AI use globally … As such, it is critical for the United States to ‘retain global leadership in artificial intelligence’,” the brief said.
For AI chatbots to generate responses, machine learning systems are first fed billions of lines of text. The bots produce their output by statistical analysis of what the nex