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 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 thank the chairman for yielding and thank him for managing the floor today. I was supposed to do that, and I got stuck in a snowstorm and slid all the way here, but I am here and glad to be here. Before us today are a number of bills…

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.

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

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

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

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

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 just wanted to point out that one of the benefits of the ACA is that essentially everybody pays average.

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

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

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.

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

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

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