DOJ Says Training ‘LLMs on Written Works Is Exceedingly Transformative’ Amid Fair Use AI Suits — While Acknowledging That Outputs Themselves ‘May Not Be Transformative’

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With a number of AI copyright battles unfolding – and with billions riding on the all-important fair use question – the Justice Department has doubled down on its position that training LLMs on protected text constitutes fair use.The DOJ reiterated its training stance yesterday, in a filing submitted as part of an ongoing infringement showdown between the New York Times and OpenAI as well as Microsoft. In motion since late 2023, that case, having received a th