AI Copyright & Deepfake manipulate users’ data, Protect Americans’ Work Products & Images

Hawley Calls on Congress to Protect Americans’ Work Products & Images from Big Tech’s Data Grab During A.I. Hearing

On 1/10/2024, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, co-chaired a hearing, calling on Congress to protect Americans’ creative work from being harvested by powerful A.I. companies without fair pay.

“What are we going to do practically to make sure that normal people—whether they are journalists, whether they’re bloggers, whether it’s just the working mom at home—what they can do to protect their work product, their information, their data. How are we going to make sure […] they are able to vindicate their rights? Because they do have rights, and they should have rights.”

Senator Hawley also raised concerns over growing deepfake technology that can manipulate users’ data, arguing that Americans should be able to protect their image and likeness online.

“I just think the idea that at any moment you live in the fear that some image of me out there could be manipulated and turned into something completely else, ruin my reputation—and what’s your alternative? Go file a legal suit? […] Most people don’t have money for that.”

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AI Copyright & Deepfake manipulate users’ data, Protect Americans’ Work Products & Images

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Hawley Calls on Congress to Protect Americans’ Work Products & Images from Big Tech’s Data Grab During A

• ), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, co-chaired a hearing, calling on Congress to protect Americans’ creative work from being harvested by powerful A
• “What are we going to do practically to make sure that normal people—whether they are journalists, whether they’re bloggers, whether it’s just the working mom at home—what they can do to protect their work product, their information, their data
• How are we going to make sure [

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Transcribed from the video audio:

• Generative AI as it exists currently, it’s been built with stolen goods
• Let’s just talk a little bit about the sort of content licensing framework that that you would favor
• Can you give us a sort of a sketch of what that would look like, something that protects existing copyright law, something that you think would be workable
• I’m not asking you to write the statute for us, but just maybe give us a thumbnail overview
• I think quite simply, if Congress could clarify that the use of our content and other publisher content for training and output of AI models is not fair use, then the free market will take care of the rest
• Just like it has in the music industry where I worked, in film and television, sports rights
• Fundamentally, we think a simple fix or clarification that use of content for training and output of AI models is not fair use, the market will take care of the rest
• I have to say that that seems imminently sensible to me, and it leads me to ask the question, why shouldn’t we expand that regime outward
• Why shouldn’t we say that anybody who’s data is ingested and then regurgitated by generative AI, whether that’s their name, their image, their likeness, why shouldn’t they be able also to have a right to compensation
• I mean, our copyright laws are quite broad, I think justly so