Mother Jones is suing OpenAI. Now the Trump administration has filed a brief, arguing that making AI companies pay for content would just be a handout to “old mainstream media companies.” (Monika Bauerlein, Mother Jones)
- Mother Jones is suing OpenAI for training ChatGPT on tens of thousands of its articles without permission or payment, and the Trump administration has filed a brief backing OpenAI at an unusually early stage in the case.
- The administration's brief frames paying publishers as a subsidy for "old mainstream media companies," a position that conveniently aligns with OpenAI's IPO ambitions around a $1 trillion valuation.
- The Romney 47 percent story is a useful concrete example: months of reporting, source protection, and verification, summarized in 20 seconds with no attribution.
