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Trump administration sides with OpenAI in lawsuit against New York Times

2026-09-02 · AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian

The Trump administration is backing OpenAI in the New York Times copyright lawsuit, arguing it's totally fine to hoover up millions of newspaper articles to train AI without paying a dime. Nothing says 'free press' like the government siding with a tech company against journalism. The Times and numerous other companies accuse OpenAI and Microsoft of mass copyright infringement for training data.

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