00:00The Trump administration is backing OpenAI in its closely-watched copyright fight with the New York Times
00:05over whether AI companies can use online news articles to train their models.
00:10The Justice Department argues that the practice is protected by fair use law
00:14and that the benefits of AI could outweigh the potential harm to publishers.
00:19The Times, which sued OpenAI in 2023, says the company is profiting from journalism without permission or compensation.
00:26The case could help determine who gets paid when artificial intelligence learns from human-created work.
