The Copyright Alliance submitted a statement for the record concerning the hearing titled “Too Big to Prosecute?: Examining the AI Industry’s Mass Ingestion of Copyrighted Works for AI Training” before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism. The statement describes how AI companies’ mass ingestion of pirated works from illicit sources to train their generative models is extremely harmful to copyright owners and the U.S. creative economy and that is should weigh heavily against fair use.