Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning
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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 …
1Key Takeaways
- 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 ….
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Research breakthroughs often arrive in products months later—early signals matter for strategy. The Verge AI reports that 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.
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