Wikimedia tells the court in the New York Times case against OpenAI that both sides' fair use claims go too far

Gizmodo reports that the Wikimedia Foundation filed an amicus, or friend of the court, brief on Thursday in the New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft. It calls both sides' positions overbroad. Its middle path: AI developers may train on freely available content, but the court should concern itself with outputs, such as answers produced with retrieval, that copy that content.

• If you publish writing, photos or a business site, check your robots.txt and your terms for what AI crawlers may take, because the rules are still being decided in court.
• When an AI answer quotes a source, open the source before you reuse the text, since the dispute is about exactly this kind of copying.

Source: Gizmodo. This is our short summary of their reporting. The paragraphs marked "Our read" and the things to do are SeedFoundry's opinion. The summary is drafted with AI tools. Image: Wikimedia Foundation, from its own announcement. How we source and credit