Stealing is ok, if you're Open AI

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If you want Open AI's tech to work, you gotta let us steal crap without paying, which points out the fact AI's evolving so quickly that the amount of content produced by us rubes no longer suffices. 

As Ars Technica reports, the Sam Altman-led company is begging president Donald Trump to instate federal regulations defining "fair use," the thorny standard at the heart of the copyright lawsuits lobbed against OpenAI by The New York Times and other companies.

This policy proposal to the White House's Office of Science and Technology comes amid increasing momentum on the state level to regulate AI. In the lengthy document the president probably will not read himself, OpenAI said that it could not compete with China — which the company insists on calling the People's Republic of China, or PRC for short, throughout — if regulations stymie AI access to copyrighted works for training data.

Channeling Meta's model applies.