The Illinois Senate approved a bill Friday that would allow artists to sue entities that replicate their work through artificial intelligence without their consent. The bill, HB4875, does not apply in special circumstances, such as news, satire and parody. “Recording artists and musicians have never had an easy path, especially starting out,” State Rep. Jennifer.
Some civil liberties advocates are concerned that too many of the biometric privacy bills being floated by US states lack substantive consumer data protections.