But that doesn't matter. The AI companies aren't going to respect it, you have to sue them, and eventually they'll hand out a payment of $1 from the class action and carry on doing it.
(not really surprising that people are going Butlerian Jihad against data center construction, is it now?)
I'm not saying that registering a trademark will cure all problems, but it's a relatively cheap and easy first step. The second step is collective action through the cartoonists' union (https://cartoonist.coop/ is one such).
(not really surprising that people are going Butlerian Jihad against data center construction, is it now?)