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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic. Source: Getty.<br>The Millions of Songs Mashed Into AI-Generated Music<br>Explore the astonishing amount of music available to AI developers.<br>Alex Reisner<br>June 14, 2026
Illustration by The Atlantic<br>The Hypocrisy at the Heart of the AI Industry<br>Tech companies believe in intellectual property, but not yours.<br>Alex Reisner<br>March 20, 2026
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic<br>AI’s Memorization Crisis<br>Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.<br>Alex Reisner<br>January 9, 2026
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic<br>AI Is Coming for YouTube Creators<br>At least 15 million videos have been snatched by tech companies.<br>Alex Reisner<br>September 10, 2025
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic<br>The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem<br>Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.<br>Alex Reisner<br>March 20, 2025
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic<br>The Company Quietly Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers<br>“You shouldn’t have put your content on the internet if you didn’t want it to be on the internet,” Common Crawl’s executive director says.<br>Alex Reisner<br>November 4, 2025
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani<br>Search Millions of YouTube Videos Used to Train Generative AI<br>Inside the data sets training new video-creating tools<br>Alex Reisner<br>September 10, 2025
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic. Source: Getty.<br>The Millions of Songs Mashed Into AI-Generated Music<br>Explore the astonishing amount of music available to AI developers.<br>Alex Reisner<br>June 14, 2026
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic<br>The Strange Origin of AI’s ‘Reasoning’ Abilities<br>It involves 4chan, of all places.<br>Alex Reisner<br>April 14, 2026
Illustration by The Atlantic<br>The Hypocrisy at the Heart of the AI Industry<br>Tech companies believe in intellectual property, but not yours.<br>Alex Reisner<br>March 20, 2026
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic<br>AI’s Memorization Crisis<br>Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.<br>Alex Reisner<br>January 9, 2026
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic<br>The Company Quietly Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers<br>“You shouldn’t have put your content on the internet if you didn’t want it to be on the internet,” Common Crawl’s executive director says.<br>Alex Reisner<br>November 4, 2025
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani<br>Search Millions of YouTube Videos Used to Train Generative AI<br>Inside the data sets training new video-creating tools<br>Alex Reisner<br>September 10, 2025
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic<br>AI Is Coming for YouTube Creators<br>At least 15 million videos have been snatched by tech companies.<br>Alex Reisner<br>September 10, 2025
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani<br>Introducing AI Watchdog<br>An ongoing investigation by The Atlantic to reveal the inner workings of generative AI<br>Alex Reisner<br>September 10, 2025
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: OrlowskiDesigns / Getty; arbaz bagwan / Getty; Mensent Photography / Getty.<br>YouTube’s Sneaky AI ‘Experiment’<br>The video platform is quietly using AI to “improve clarity” in uploaded content. Why?<br>Alex Reisner<br>August 22, 2025
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Getty.<br>Judges Don’t Know What AI’s Book Piracy Means<br>Can AI companies keep stealing books to train their models?<br>Alex Reisner<br>July 14, 2025
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