Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus, actor Julianne Moore, Radiohead singer Thom Yorke are among the 10,500 people who signed a statement from the industry warning that artificial intelligence companies use their work without permission and are a “huge, unfair threat” to artists’ finances.
The statement comes amid legal disputes between developers and tech companies over the use of their work to train AI models such as ChatGPT and alleged unauthorized use of their intelligence is a violation of the law.
“Unauthorized use of artificial intelligence AI services is dangerous, unfair to the people working on the services, and should not be tolerated,” the statement said.
Thousands of experts from literature, music, film, theater and television have given support to the statement, with writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Ann Patchett, and Kate Mosse, musicians including The Cure’s Robert Smith and singer Max. Richter and actors including Kevin Bacon, Rosario Dawson and F Murray Abraham.
The letter’s organizer, British songwriter and former AI executive Ed Newton-Rex, said people who earn money from creative services are “deeply concerned” about the situation.
“There are three basic requirements that AI companies need to develop AI models: people, compute, and data. They spend a lot of money on the first two – sometimes a million dollars per engineer, and up to a billion dollars per model. But they hope to get the third – data training – for free,” he said.
Newton-Rex is the former chief voice officer at the AI ​​technology company Stability but resigned last year because of the company’s belief that taking copyrighted material to train AI models without permission is “fair use”, a term that falls under US law. Copyright in the US means permission from copyright. the owner is not needed.
Newton-Rex added: “When AI companies call it ‘training data’, they dehumanize it. What we’re talking about is human activity – their writing, their art, their music.”
In the US John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and George RR Martin are among the authors who are suing ChatGPT developer OpenAI for copyright infringement, while artists are also suing the technology companies behind the image producers and major labels including Sony Music, Universal Music Group and Warner Music The group is suing AI music producers Suno and Udio.
Newton-Rex also warned that an “exit” proposal to remove the UK government’s proposed measures would be more damaging. This month the Financial Times reported that ministers will discuss a policy that would allow AI companies to search content from artists and publishers only after they “opt out” of the project.
Last month Google, a major player in AI, asked to lift restrictions on a practice in the UK known as text and data mining (TDM), where the copying of legal works is allowed for non-commercial purposes such as academic research.
Newton-Rex said the exit strategy was flawed because many people are unaware of such schemes.
“I’ve run the exit process for AI companies,” Newton-Rex said. “Even the best managed exits miss out on many potential exits.” You don’t hear about it, you miss the email.
“It’s unfair to put the burden of leaving AI education on the designer whose work is being taught. If the government thinks this is good for designers then it can create a way to get in.”
Newton-Rex said the number of signatories to the statement, and the breadth of creative talent it represented, made it clear that the exit scheme would be taken “absolutely unfairly” by producers.
The statement has also been signed by unions and industry groups including the American Federation of Musicians, the US actors’ union SAG-AFTRA, the European Writers’ Council and Universal Music Group.
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