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

Donald Trump told White House visiting GOP Congressional candidates tonight that “the media has gained respect for us, they cannot believe what we’ve done.”

The 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 OpenAI in its consolidated copyright infringement battle with the Gray Lady, Florida and Arkansas papers, The Intercept, other outlets and a galaxy of scribe stars, the NYT took the tech-lord friendly administration to the wordsmith woodshed.

“The Administration is siding with a handful of trillion-dollar AI companies at the expense of the countless American creators whose work they stole,” Times spokesman Graham James told Deadline Wednesday.

“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 thorn in Trump’s paw over and over.

Stressing  the benefits of more powerful American-based AI “far outweigh any competitive harm,” the SOI avoided the politics, personal and otherwise of the matter, but was blunt about its goals “The United States has a strong interest in this Court rejecting any argument that training LLMs on copyrighted texts violates copyright law,” the government exclaimed.