In a proposal for the U.S. government’s “AI Action Plan,” the Trump Administration’s initiative to reshape American AI policy, OpenAI called for a U.S. copyright strategy that “[preserves] American AI models’ ability to learn from copyrighted material.”
“America has so many AI startups, attracts so much investment, and has made so many research breakthroughs largely because the fair use doctrine promotes AI development,” OpenAI wrote.
It’s not the first time OpenAI, which has trained many of its models on openly available web data, often without the data owners’ knowledgeor consent, has argued for more permissive laws and regulations around AI training.
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Oh my, I picked the wrong news outlet for this. It’s so juicy!
OpenAI calls DeepSeek ‘state-controlled,’ calls for bans on ‘PRC-produced’ models (new Tech Crunch one)
OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use (Ars Technica)
The conflict that people that hate both copyright and exploitative AI had just got resolved. It’s nothing new, but I still get surprised by how shameless the justifications can be.
“Your honor, if I hadn’t stole all that money, I couldn’t be investing to make myself more money. Think about it, it was so much that I had to hire people to help me, so I created jobs.”