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