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AI Progress released a report, AI Models: Addressing Misconceptions About Training and Copyright, which sets the record straight on how AI models learn, what U.S. copyright law protects, and why training AI models on copyrighted works is consistent with decades of legal precedent under the fair use doctrine.

As debates over artificial intelligence intensify, critics are questioning whether training large language models (LLMs) on data violates U.S. copyright law. But legal precedent — and a closer look at how these models actually work — tells a different story.

AI Progress issued the following statement after the release of the Trump Administration’s AI Action Plan to ensure U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence. AI is a foundational technology with the power to drive scientific discovery, improve public services and unlock economic opportunity.

The AI Progress coalition issued a statement after the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a significant ruling which held that using copyrighted works to train large language models is fair use under U.S. copyright law.