Jun 19, 2026 – 4.19pmSongs by Kylie Minogue, scripts by George Miller and novels by Peter Carey are among 125 million works scraped for the training of artificial intelligence models without permission, a new database has revealed.The Atlantic’s AI Watchdog database was launched this week, built by the American publication using information from AI developer forums and public research collaboration platforms such as Hugging Face.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles