US Copyright Office says fair use does not cover AI trained on "vast troves of copyrighted works"
A central argument in the report is that AI systems process information fundamentally differently from humans. While people retain partial, filtered impressions of creative works — shaped by memory, personality, and context — AI models ingest perfect copies, analyze them almost instantly, and generate new content at "superhuman speed and scale," according to the Copyright Office.
"Generative model training transcends the human limitations that underlie the structure of the exclusive rights." -- Professor Robert Brauneis, "Copyright and the Training of Human Authors and Generative Machines"
But -- plot twist! "Shortly after the report was released, the Trump administration fired Shira Perlmutter, head of the U.S. Copyright Office."