Multiple papers owned by Alden Global Capital, the nation’s second-largest newspaper publisher, slammed OpenAI for its recent proposal to the Trump White House to make it easier to use copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence models. The papers, in an editorial published Monday, said OpenAI and Google — which also submitted an AI plan to the Trump Administration last week — are seeking a “license to steal” copyrighted material from publishers.
OpenAI, in the plan it shared with the White House last week, said allowing AI models to train based on copyrighted material is necessary to “strengthen America’s lead” against China’s communist government when it comes to AI.