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

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'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…

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

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…

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

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

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

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 sure really wish that Congress would do something about this.

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

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

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

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

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