In another decision clarifying the fact that the Trump regime will come out on the wrong, usually self-dealing side of every issue, The Verge reported today that the Department of Justice has sided with OpenAI’s right to plunder copyrighted material without consequence. This week, DOJ lawyers filed a statement of interest siding with the AI giant and against The New York Times, which in 2023 filed a lawsuit accusing the company of training its LLMs (large language models) on copyrighted Times articles.
In its argument against human writers retaining any semblance of ownership or control over the things they create with their puny human brains and creativity, the DOJ argued that anything “constraining LLM development” in any way would derail “creative and scientific progress while hindering American prosperity and economic mobility.” The DOJ’s interest in this case—in which the Times is seeking “billions of dollars” in damages from both OpenAI and Microsoft—jibes right along with the Trump regime’s all-in stance on the widely protested construction of the resource-devouring data centers powering AI engines.
And while the Verge article doesn’t mention it, the fact that OpenAI president Greg Brockman and co-defendants Microsoft have given millions to Donald Trump is probably just a coincidence. As it is that vindictive manbaby Trump himself is suing The New York Times for defamation (for suggesting the six-time bankruptcy-filing former reality show host was a bad businessperson). And that Trump recently awarded computer maker Dell a major defense contract after personally purchasing millions in Dell stock.
At any rate, the Court of the Southern District of New York now has the full weight of the government tipping the scales in a major case involving how freely companies are allowed to steal others’ hard work.
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