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
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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