Trump supports OpenAI in lawsuit against the “New York Times”

The government of President Donald Trump (Republican Party) made an extraordinary intervention in a legal dispute between OpenAI and the North American newspaper The New York Timesin support of the artificial intelligence company.

In 2023, the publication sued OpenAI alleging that the company had violated copyright by using legally protected materials to train its chatbot systems.

On Wednesday (September 2, 2026), the United States Department of Justice presented a statement stating that limiting OpenAI’s ability to develop its models with millions of newspaper articles “would impede creative and scientific progress while harming American prosperity and economic mobility.”. The information is from the newspaper Financial Times.

The demonstration says that the U.S. “have strong interest” in which the court “reject any argument that training language models with copyrighted text violates copyright law.”. The text mentions the decrees signed by Trump that determined the adoption of measures by the government to guarantee US leadership in the AI ​​sector.

According to the Financial Timesthe intervention could affect dozens of lawsuits filed by other newspapers, book publishers, record labels and copyright holders that accuse AI companies of collecting a large volume of content to train their chatbots without asking for authorization or making payments.

Trump often clashes with the The New York Times and its professionals. He filed a $15 billion lawsuit against the newspaper for defamation. The publication denies any irregularities.

Graham James, spokesman for New York Timessaid that the government “is siding with a handful of trillion-dollar AI companies to the detriment of the countless American creators whose work they stole”.

He said: “AI companies simply need to pay fairly for the content that makes their products possible, as required by copyright law. The administration’s proposal to allow companies to use this content without authorization or compensation would harm the sustainability of the human-produced content that a healthy society depends on and that AI needs to function.”

OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman is among Maga’s biggest donors (Make America Great Again)a group that supports Trump.

Wanted by Financial TimesOpenAI did not respond to the report.