The U.S. government, through the Trump administration, has filed a 20-page brief in defense of OpenAI's unlicensed use of copyrighted material to train its large language models (LLMs) in a lawsuit brought by the New York Times. The brief argues that the United States has a strong interest in developing a robust and competitive artificial intelligence industry, and constraining LLM development based on a misunderstanding of fair use doctrine would hinder creative and scientific progress, as well as American prosperity. This intervention, while not a ruling, could carry significant weight in the ongoing legal debate.