Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning
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Source: The Verge (AI)July 29, 2026
Summary
Artists are suing companies that used their work to train AI systems without permission. Author Kirk Wallace Johnson discovered his books had been included in a dataset used to train chatbots (AI systems designed to have conversations), and he is taking legal action along with other creators whose work was used without consent.
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Original source: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/971059/ai-artists-lawsuit-google-meta-anthropic
First tracked: July 29, 2026 at 08:00 AM
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