Trump Administration Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Lawsuit, Because Of Course It Fucking Does

So here’s the latest heap of legal bullshit: the Trump administration has filed a brief backing OpenAI in The New York Times copyright lawsuit, arguing that letting copyright holders block AI companies from training on their material could kneecap the US in the great international AI pissing contest. In other words, the government is saying, “Sure, maybe the machines slurped up a mountain of copyrighted work, but have you considered that we really, really want to win?”

The case itself is about whether AI firms can hoover up articles, books, and other content without permission and use it to train their shiny statistical bullshit engines. The New York Times says this is copyright infringement and that OpenAI and Microsoft helped themselves to its journalism like drunk interns raiding the office fridge. OpenAI, naturally, says training is transformative, innovative, and all the usual Silicon Valley buzzword salad they throw around when they want to avoid paying for something.

The administration’s position is basically that stronger copyright enforcement might slow AI development, and that would be bad for “competitiveness” and “national security,” which are the magic words politicians use when they want everyone to stop asking awkward questions. Never mind whether creators get shafted. Never mind whether news organizations are being strip-mined to feed chatbot hype. The important thing, apparently, is that the US keeps its boot on the neck of the global AI race.

Critics, unsurprisingly, think this is a steaming pile of self-serving crap. If AI companies can ingest copyrighted work at scale without paying for it, then publishers, writers, artists, and basically anyone who produces something of value gets told to go fuck themselves while tech giants monetize the results. That’s not “innovation”; that’s industrial-scale content laundering with better PR.

And that’s the real punchline: this isn’t just a legal dispute, it’s a fight over who gets sacrificed on the altar of AI progress. The government has made it pretty fucking clear which side it prefers—big AI firms with deep pockets, lobbyists, and enough buzzwords to wallpaper the Pentagon. Everyone else can apparently eat shit and be grateful they’re contributing to the future.

I once watched management declare that unauthorized software copies were “mission critical” right up until the vendor’s lawyers showed up and started feeding their budget through a wood chipper. Funny how principles evaporate when the bill arrives. Same song here, just with more billion-dollar arrogance and fewer functioning moral circuits.

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https://www.wired.com/story/trump-administration-sides-with-ai-giants-new-york-times-lawsuit/