The Wikimedia Foundation files to protect open knowledge in New York Times v OpenAI case
The Wikimedia Foundation filed an amicus brief in the copyright infringement lawsuit between The New York Times and OpenAI, urging the court to protect the open knowledge ecosystem. The foundation argues that fair use should apply to model training when creating new technologies, but that retrieval-augmented generation techniques delivering copied content back to users should require licensing and proper attribution. Open article →
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