fair use

They added that "fair use of copyrighted materials is vital to this", and that the company wants to develop AI that benefits everyone.

“We build our AI models using publicly available data, in a manner protected by fair use and related principles, and supported by long-standing and widely accepted legal precedents,” OpenAI said in a statement.

The AI companies argue that their actions fall under "fair use" and are therefore exempt.

The AI firms have said in their defense that they’re applying the “fair use” exception to copyright law.

AI developers generally claim that their feeding copyrighted works into their bots’ databases falls within the “fair use” exception to copyright protection.