Josh Hawley

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

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?

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.

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

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?

Do we want all the news and information in this Nation to be controlled by two or three companies? I certainly don'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 mean, to see an entire body of law just destroyed. I mean, that can't possibly be right.

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

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

Do we want all the news and information in this Nation to be controlled by two or three companies? I certainly don'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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.