# Grumpy old luddites around here

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [April 6, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grumpy-old-luddites-around-here/1016701 "2025-04-06T16:01:08Z")
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### Author: ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grumpy-old-luddites-around-here/1016701/111 "2025-04-08T19:43:26Z")

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> [@We\_re\_wolves\_not\_werewolves](#):
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> which brings up the interesting question whether using a copyrighted work to train AI is a fair use exception to copyright infringement.

In the words of the mother of parliaments I refer the Honorable Gentleperson to my previous response;)

> [@I'm missing something about AI training](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-missing-something-about-ai-training/1014781/267):
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> So OpenAI’s Sam Altman has urged Trump intervene in this very matter. Using the ol’ Red China bogeyman card (“if you don’t let us copy all these people’s work then China will take over!”) OpenAI is hoping that Donald Trump’s AI Action Plan, due out this July, will settle copyright debates by declaring AI training fair use—paving the way for AI companies’ unfettered access to training data that OpenAI claims is critical to defeat China in the AI race. Currently, courts are mulling whether AI…

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