US DOD says copyright theft is necessary for AI advancement

Wes Hilliard and Mike Wuerthele report, sharply, on an amicus brief filed by the US Associate Attorney General, Stanley Woodward Jr, in The New York Times's copyright case against OpenAI. The brief backs fair use for training language models and argues that "Rules of law that make it significantly more difficult to develop a robust AI industry in the United States therefore threaten national security"; a Times spokesperson says the administration is siding with AI companies "at the expense of the countless American creators whose work they stole". As the authors note, a brief is "still just an opinion the court can consider and reject".

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