at a rapid clip . The plaintiffs include individual authors like Sarah Silverman and Ta Nehisi Coates, visual artists, media companies like The New York Times, and music industry giants like Universal Music Group. This wide variety of rights holders are alleging that AI companies have used their work to train what are often highly lucrative and powerful AI models in a manner that is tantamount to theft. AI companies are frequently defending themselves by relying on whats known as the “fair use”...
