OpenAI Touts Briefs Backing Fair Use for AI Training

[ipw_quote]“Copyright is not a general remedy for technological disruption or a means for reallocating the gains from a new technology.” – Public Knowledge[/ipw_quote] OpenAI published a post on Friday, titled “Fair use benefits everyone,” featuring excerpts from 20 filings that urge the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) to find that training large language models (LLMs) on copyrighted works is fair use. All but one are amicus briefs filed on or before the October 30 deadline in In re OpenAI, Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation, the multidistrict litigation (MDL) that combines copyright lawsuits filed against OpenAI and Microsoft by The New York Times and other news publishers, Ziff Davis, and a group of authors, led by the Authors Guild, seeking to proceed as a class.