🇺🇸 US government just backed OpenAI : - The DOJ told a federal court that training LLMs on copyrighted works can qualify as fair use, siding with OpenAI in its copyright fight with The New York Times. - The government argues LLM training is “extraordinarily transformative” because the models learn generalized language and reasoning capabilities rather than simply reproducing the training material. - It also made the stakes much bigger than copyright, restricting AI training could hurt US scientific progress, economic growth and national security.