DOJ Backs AI Fair Use
The US government just took a major stand on AI scraping. Find out why the DOJ is backing OpenAI against publishers.
What the video says
The government is backing AI's right to scrape. The Trump administration officially intervened in the lawsuit between OpenAI and The New York Times.
The Department of Justice argued that AI's public benefits far outweigh any competitive harm to publishers. The Times countered that the government is siding with trillion-dollar corporations over creators.
Ultimately, the DOJ filed documents asserting that training these models on internet texts is protected by fair use.
