The Wikimedia Foundation filed a brief with the US District Court for the Southern District of New York advocating a middle path in the litigation involving OpenAI and Microsoft. It argues that training large language models on copyrighted works may qualify as fair use, while verbatim reproduction by chatbots should not receive the same protection. The Foundation warns that prohibiting AI training could deprive Wikipedia contributors of useful tools, whereas broadly allowing AI outputs could discourage people from freely sharing knowledge. The ruling could have implications beyond this case, which has pitted publishers, including The New York Times, against OpenAI and Microsoft since 2023.
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