Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for convening this hearing.

I'm just concerned that this is going to be--if they're reading, if the AI companies, which are really just the Big Tech companies, again, if they're reading a fair use prevails, is that fair use is going to be the exception that swallowed…

I mean, why shouldn't we say that anybody whose data is ingested and then regurgitated by Generative AI... why shouldn't they be able also to have a right to compensation?

I mean, why shouldn't we say that anybody whose data is ingested and then regurgitated by Generative AI... why shouldn't they be able also to have a right to compensation?

It's always, theoretically, we should put safeguards in place for real people. But when you come to do it, it's, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, we can't.

Do we want all the news and information in this Nation to be controlled by two or three companies? I certainly don't.

It seems to me that every American ought to have some rights here in their data and in their content.

the reason that the public can't separate fact from fiction is in the case of these images.

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.

I mean, to see an entire body of law just destroyed. I mean, that can't possibly be right.

I sure really wish that Congress would do something about this.

I have yet to talk to a Missourian who is an enthusiastic, no holds barred cheerleader for AI.

I'm just concerned that this is going to be--if they're reading, if the AI companies, which are really just the Big Tech companies, again, if they're reading a fair use prevails, is that fair use is going to be the exception that swallowed…

I have yet to talk to a Missourian who is an enthusiastic, no holds barred cheerleader for AI.

Senator Blumenthal has just done tremendous, tremendous work chairing this Committee.

It seems to me that every American ought to have some rights here in their data and in their content.

I just think the idea that at any moment you live in the fear that some image of me out there could be manipulated.

I just think the idea that at any moment you live in the fear that some image of me out there could be manipulated.