Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning
The Verge Terrence O’Brien
Artists and authors are filing lawsuits against companies that used their copyrighted work to train AI models without permission, with some securing legal victories. Kirk Wallace Johnson discovered his books were included in training datasets used to build chatbots after The Atlantic published a searchable database of training materials. These lawsuits may force AI companies to change how they source training data and potentially compensate creators whose work was used without consent.
Why it matters
When The Atlantic published a searchable dataset of works used to train AI, Kirk Wallace Johnson, like a lot of artists, looked for his name out of curiosity. And, like a lot of artists, he found it. Essentially, his books, like The Feather Thief and The Fishermen and the Dragon - nonfiction tomes that he […]
