AI as National Security and Imminent Domain
Added 2025-03-14 16:32:31 +0000 UTCOpenAI is just one AI company fighting with rights holders in several dozen lawsuits, arguing that AI transforms copyrighted works it trains on and alleging that AI outputs aren't substitutes for original works.
So far, one landmark ruling favored rights holders, with a judge declaring AI training is not fair use, as AI outputs clearly threatened to replace Thomson-Reuters' legal research firm Westlaw in the market, Wired reported. But OpenAI now appears to be looking to Trump to avoid a similar outcome in its lawsuits, including a major suit brought by The New York Times.
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Some of these laws, OpenAI warned, are modeled after strict European Union laws that OpenAI claimed the federal government should reject replicating due to alleged limits on innovation. Altogether, the patchwork of laws "could impose burdensome compliance requirements that may hinder our economic competitiveness and undermine our national security" since they will likely be harder to enforce against Chinese companies, OpenAI said.
If Chinese models become more advanced and more widely used by Americans, China could manipulate the models or ignore harms to American users from "illicit and harmful activities such as identity fraud and intellectual property theft," OpenAI alleged. (OpenAI has accused DeepSeek of improperly using OpenAI's data for training.)
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