The theft of human creation by large AI companies is so egregious that the Senate is doing something it usually avoids at all costs — introducing legislation to clarify the landscape and protect people from the machines. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) proposed the AI Accountability and Personal Data Protection Act earlier this week, “to protect consumers’ data rights and hold Big Tech companies accountable for illegally pirating creators’ copyrighted works to train their artificial intelligence (AI) models.” Among the Act’s protections are measures to “safeguard individuals’ copyrighted materials from being used in AI training or AI-generated content […]
