{"id":5259,"date":"2026-07-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/artists-are-lawyering-up-against-ai-slop-and-some-are-even-winning\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:00:00","slug":"artists-are-lawyering-up-against-ai-slop-and-some-are-even-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/artists-are-lawyering-up-against-ai-slop-and-some-are-even-winning\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a middle finger being at an AI sparkle\" data-caption=\"Artists whose work has been co-opted by AI are taking to court. | Image: Alex Parkin \/ The Verge\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Alex Parkin \/ The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/268669_The_artists_suing_AI_companies_AParkin.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\"><figcaption>\n\tArtists whose work has been co-opted by AI are taking to court. | Image: Alex Parkin \/ The Verge\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When <em>The Atlantic <\/em>published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/category\/ai-watchdog\/\">searchable dataset<\/a> 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, his books, like <em>The Feather Thief <\/em>and <em>The Fishermen and the Dragon &#8211; <\/em>nonfiction tomes that he spent &#8220;five to six years researching, writing, and investigating&#8221; &#8211; had been pirated and fed to a chatbot. He says he felt a &#8220;cocktail&#8221; of emotions: &#8220;anger over the brazenness of the theft, worry over what this means for writers, and a healthy thirst for revenge on these massive corporations that have become galactically wealthy&#8221; using his  \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/971059\/ai-artists-lawsuit-google-meta-anthropic\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gundem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}