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title: "Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning"
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description: "Artists are suing AI companies for using their copyrighted works to train models without permission. Writer Kirk Wallace Johnson discovered his books were included in a dataset used by The Atlantic, prompting legal action. This trend reflects growing artist resistance against unauthorized data scraping by tech corporations."
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# Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning

Artists whose work has been co-opted by AI are taking to court. | Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge 

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 spent "five to six years researching, writing, and investigating" - had been pirated and fed to a chatbot. He says he felt a "cocktail" of emotions: "anger over the brazenness of the theft, worry over what this means for writers, and a healthy thirst for revenge on these massive corporations that have become galactically wealthy" using his …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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