NY Times Rips Trump's DOJ For Backing AI Companies In Class Action Suit

NY Times Rips Trump's DOJ For Backing AI Companies In Class Action Suit
摘要: Trump’s DOJ Skewered By NYT For Backing OpenAI & “Trillion-Dollar AI Companies” In Copyright Suit Featuring Media Heavyweights & Star-Studded Scribes
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Trump’s DOJ Skewered By NYT For Backing OpenAI & “Trillion-Dollar AI Companies” In Copyright Suit Featuring Media Heavyweights & Star-Studded Scribes
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Donald Trump
told GOP congressional candidates visiting the White House on Wednesday evening that “the media has gained respect for us, they cannot believe what we’ve done.”
New York Times
might beg to differ, at least when it comes to artificial intelligence.
Almost a day after the Justice Department filed paperwork in federal court backing
in its consolidated copyright infringement battle with the New York Times, Florida and Arkansas papers,
The Intercept,
other outlets, Ta-Nehisi Coates and a galaxy of scribe stars, the
took the tech-lord-friendly administration to the woodshed.
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“The Administration is siding with a handful of trillion-dollar AI companies at the expense of the countless American creators whose work they stole,”
spokesman Graham James told Deadline tonight.
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“In this litigation, the
New York Times
seeks to narrow fair-use doctrine to exclude the training of OpenAI’s large language models,” the DOJ said in
its statement of interest filing late Tuesday,
spotlighting the paper that has proved a tho