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Justice Department backs OpenAI in dispute with New York Times without consulting the Copyright Office and the Patent Office

Prepared by Sintelligent with the help of SI. Publication time restored from the build log. . Updated: .

The position that "training SI on texts is allowed" came from above, bypassing the specialized officials: political will for SI is for now stronger than agency caution.

According to Axios, the Justice Department's statement that training models on others' texts is fair use came as a surprise to the Copyright Office and the Patent and Trademark Office, the specialized intellectual property agencies. The position was not coordinated with them, and, contrary to usual practice, the document does not carry the signatures of career lawyers, only of senior officials. Publishers criticized the argument that complying with copyright would undermine the competitiveness of American SI.

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Justice Department in the OpenAI–New York Times dispute

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