Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning

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By Terrence O’BrienJul 29, 2026, 8:00 am124 ptsTrending
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,…

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