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Who’s Suing Whom in AI?
A visualisation of selected lawsuits from over 100 filed against AI companies as of June 2026.
The first salvos in a structural conflict against the inherently extractive nature of AI models? Or a massive legal pile-on? Yeah. Probably both.
Most are copyright claims by authors, record labels, newsrooms, academic publishers and um, Disney who say major AI models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude have been trained illegally on their creative and commercial output, far beyond “fair use”.
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source: ChatGPTinEatingTheWorld.com, Wired
designed by Mr David McCandless
$$$Billions
Every year(ish), since 2009, I’ve been gathering and visualising billions from news headlines and reports. These gargantuan numbers often make little sense unless put in context and comparison with other billions. So here’s the latest interactive edition.
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Explore our companion visualisation, $$$TRILLIONS
