Thousands of creators, including famous actors such as Kevin Bacon and Kate McKinnon, as well as actors, writers, and musicians, have made creative works without the unauthorized use of copyrighted material to train AI models. They signed a statement warning that it was a threat to people. The list of signatories so far includes 11,500 names.
The one-sentence statement is:
“Unauthorized use of creative works for the purpose of training generative AI is a serious and unwarranted threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works and should not be allowed.”
The statement was released by Fairly Trained, an organization that advocates for the fair use of training data by AI companies. Ed Newton-Rex, CEO of Fairly Training, told the Guardian that generative AI companies need “people, compute and data” to build models, and spend “huge sums” on the former two. “I’m looking forward to training for the third time,” he said. Data is free. ” Newton-Rex founded Fairly Trained after leaving Stability AI and accused generative AI of “exploiting creators.”
There are several notable names among the signatories that do not appear. Scarlett Johansson, who sparked a huge controversy with OpenAI after the company was accused of modeling her voice after GPT-4o, is not on the list. Nor are actors like Dame Judi Dench and John Cena, who have registered their voices to be recreated in Meta AI’s voice chat system.
