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OpenAI shares briefs backing fair use in AI training

Original title: Fair use benefits everyone

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What it is: OpenAI shared excerpts from legal briefs submitted to the court by various experts and creators. These documents support the principle of fair use for training artificial intelligence models.
How it works: Supporters argue that AI training uses copyrighted works for a completely different purpose and does not harm the market for the original works. This training enables the development of new tools that help people learn, create, and run businesses.
Where it is available: The legal arguments apply to the lawsuit filed by The New York Times against OpenAI in the United States.
Example: Creator Sarah Rose Siskind uses AI for day-to-day administrative tasks, developing ideas, and bringing in new clients for her business.

What it is: OpenAI published excerpts from amicus briefs supporting the application of the fair use doctrine to training large language models (LLMs). This publication comes in response to the lawsuit by The New York Times.
How it works: According to the briefs, training models builds a general-purpose tool. It does not reproduce the original works for the public, and model outputs are not similar to the intermediate copies made during training.
Where it is available: The legal arguments were submitted to the court in the United States as part of the litigation involving The New York Times.
Example: Musician Michael Wall uses AI tools to manage the operational demands of his music business and reduce costs.

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Fair use benefits everyone