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

Wednesday, July 29, 2026


Kirk Wallace Johnson, an author whose works including "The Feather Thief" and "The Fishermen and the Dragon" were included in a dataset published by The Atlantic used to train AI models, discovered his books in the collection while searching the searchable database.

Original reporting: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/971059/ai-artists-lawsuit-google-meta-anthropic

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