Tech giants must be stopped from ripping off musicians, writers & news publishers to train AI systems, ministers warned
Ministers have been told that tech firms must be prevented from exploiting writers, musicians, and news publishers when they use their work to train AI systems.
Yesterday, the government opened a consultation on how AI may train its models using the copyrighted works of the best talent in the UK.
There is increasing ire over ministers’ desire to permit IT executives to utilize copyrighted content without restriction unless the authors choose to opt out.
The move has been criticized as a devastating blow to the 126 billion-pound creative sector in the UK.
AI ethics specialist Baroness Beeban Kidron stated: “It destroys the ability to make a living if you continue to let AI companies scrape copyrighted work without payment.”
The creative community wants to interact with technology and collaborate with AI, but they also want to be compensated for their efforts.
The government consultation is too expensive for the tech industry, too late, and too little.
Prominent authors, musicians, and filmmakers have cautioned that the government should only figure out how to strictly enforce the stringent copyright rules that already protect content.
They want to make sure that tech tycoons who profit from the best talent in Britain pay for it.
Andrew Mak, the Tory Shadow Technology Secretary, accused Peter Kyle, his opponent, of being slow to act on the urgent matter.
He claimed that by starting yet another consultation, Labour is putting the sector behind our rivals and causing hesitancy, delay, and maybe two years of uncertainty.
Caroline Dineage, the chair of the Commons Culture, Media, and Sport Committee, stated that she has heard many people express worry about the unauthorized use of protected material to train AI.
She demanded that any final solutions guarantee the protection of creators’ rights.
News publishers should be in charge of how and when their information is used, and they should be fairly compensated for it, according to Owen Meredith, CEO of the News Media Association.
Rather than suggesting impractical structures like the rights reservations (or opt-out) regime, the government ought to concentrate on enforcing transparency standards within the current copyright structure.
This is the only way to guarantee the mutual success of creatives and the AI companies that depend on them for high-quality data.
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