SAG-AFTRA, the American Federation of Music and the Writers Guild of America East and West are calling on a federal judge to reject a fair use exemption for training AI models.
The unions jointly filed an amicus brief Thursday in the ongoing copyright infringement battle between OpenAI and a slew of news outlets and writers, urging the court to consider that the trillion-dollar company is “appropriating the work of middle- and working-class people to develop their technology” with the free, unrestrained use of third-party content to train its language learning models.
“The harms of unlicensed training fall not
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