There is no free lunch here. The content doesn't appear by magic, and we need to protect both the innovation and the creativity.

Well, the printing press never created anything. Ben Franklin ran a printing shop, and Ben Franklin would never have told us here that, 'Oh, it's not my fault. It's the printing press that did it.'

Nonetheless, we have introduced No Section 230 Immunity for AI Act, just to make it explicit and clear.

There is a double whammy here.

local reporting is the lifeblood of our democracy, and local reporting by newspapers and broadcast stations are in existential crisis.

The argument could be made, I think, that the law now requires this kind of licensing.

I think there are some that maybe we can form a consensus around, just as Senator Hawley and I have on the framework that we've proposed.

local reporting is the lifeblood of our democracy, and local reporting by newspapers and broadcast stations are in existential crisis.

We're going to continue working on this topic.

I'm very hopeful that Congress perhaps can act on this issue because it has an urgency.

There is no free lunch here.

The argument could be made, I think, that the law now requires this kind of licensing.

But if Meta or Google or OpenAI takes The New Yorker logo, or the Hartford Courant's headline, and in effect creates some kind of false content, that is defamatory.

Not a single witness has contended that AI, generative or otherwise, is covered by Section 230.

I want to thank my colleague, Senator Klobuchar, and Senator Lee, for their work on legislation that I've joined as a co-sponsor.

The organizations that use your content to train or appropriated, in effect, misappropriated without crediting or paying for it, can't be sued.

Well, the printing press never created anything. Ben Franklin ran a printing shop, and Ben Franklin would never have told us here that, 'Oh, it's not my fault. It's the printing press that did it.'

They deserve compensation for the content they're creating.