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US senators introduce bipartisan bill to make it easier to sue tech companies over AI copyright theft


Last month, a federal judge said Anthropic’s use of books to train its AI model was “highly transformative” and counted as fair use.

and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) rolled out bipartisan legislation to make it easier for people to sue tech companies for pirating their data to train artificial intelligence models — calling the rampant practice “the largest intellectual property theft in American history” “Tech companies must be held accountable — and liable legally — when they breach consumer privacy, collecting, monetizing or sharing personal information without express consent,” he said. In recent years, tech firms have been sued by content creators and publishers who allege that their copyrighted material was “scraped” for use by AI models.

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