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"Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus, the actor Julianne Moore and the Radiohead singer Thom
Yorke are among 10,500 signatories of a statement from the creative industries
warning artificial intelligence companies that unlicensed use of their work is
a “major, unjust threat” to artists’ livelihoods.
The statement comes amid legal battles between creative professionals and tech
firms over the use of their work to train AI models such as ChatGPT and claims
that using their intellectual property without permission is a breach of
copyright.
“The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major,
unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not
be permitted,” reads the statement.
Thousands of creative professionals from the worlds of literature, music, film,
theatre and television have given their backing to the statement, with authors
including Kazuo Ishiguro, Ann Patchett, and Kate Mosse, musicians including the
Cure’s Robert Smith as well as the composer Max Richter and actors including
Kevin Bacon, Rosario Dawson and F Murray Abraham.
The organiser of the letter, the British composer and former AI executive Ed
Newton-Rex, said people who make a living from creative work are “very worried”
about the situation.
“There are three key resources that generative AI companies need to build AI
models: people, compute, and data. They spend vast sums on the first two –
sometimes a million dollars per engineer, and up to a billion dollars per
model. But they expect to take the third – training data – for free,” he said.
Newton-Rex is a former head of audio at tech firm Stability AI but resigned
last year over the firm’s belief that taking copyrighted content to train AI
models without a licence constitutes “fair use”, a term under US copyright law
meaning permission from the copyright owner is not needed.
Newton-Rex added: “When AI companies call this ‘training data’, they dehumanise
it. What we’re talking about is people’s work – their writing, their art, their
music.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
