Abba’s Bjorn Ulvaeus, actor Julianne Moore, Radiohead singer Thom Yorke and others warn artificial intelligence companies that unauthorized use of their work poses a “serious and unwarranted threat” to artists’ livelihoods He is among 10,500 people who signed the creative industry statement.
The statement comes amid a legal battle between creative professionals and technology companies over the use of copyrighted works to train AI models such as ChatGPT, and those using their intellectual property without permission. It alleges that this is copyright infringement.
“Unauthorized use of creative works to train generative AI is a serious and unwarranted threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works and should not be allowed,” the statement said. Masu.
Thousands of creatives from the worlds of literature, music, film, theater and television, including writers such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Anne Patchett and Kate Moss, musicians such as The Cure’s Robert Smith, and composer Max. Experts support this statement. Richter and actors such as Kevin Bacon, Rosario Dawson, and F. Murray Abraham.
The letter’s organizer, British composer and former AI executive Ed Newton Rex, said the situation was “very worrying” for people who make a living from creative work.
“Generative AI companies need three key resources to build AI models: people, compute, and data. They spend huge amounts of money on the first two: $1 million per engineer. , which can be up to $1 billion per model. But they expect to get the third training data for free,” he said.
Newton-Rex is the former head of audio at tech company Stability AI, which says using copyrighted content to train AI models without a license constitutes “fair use.” He resigned last year because of his beliefs. Fair use is a term in U.S. copyright law that refers to permission from the copyright holder. No owner required.
Newton-Rex added: “When AI companies call this ‘training data,’ they dehumanize it. We’re talking about people’s writing, art, music, and other work. ”
In the United States, John Grisham, Jodi Pickult, and George R.R. Martin are among a group of writers suing ChatGPT developer OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement, and artists are also The company, Sony Music, Universal Music Group and Warner Records are suing AI music creators Suno and Udio.
Newton-Rex also warned that the “opt-out” proposals for content scraping being considered by the UK government would be extremely harmful. This month, the Financial Times reported that ministers will discuss plans to allow AI companies to collect content from artists and publishers unless they “opt out” of the process. Last month, major AI company Google called for easing restrictions on the practice known as text data mining (TDM) in the UK. TDM allows copying of copyrighted works for non-commercial purposes such as academic research.
Newton-Rex said the opt-out option was flawed because most people were unaware of such a system.
“I’ve been running opt-out systems for AI companies,” Newton-Rex said. “Even the most well-run opt-out plans will be missed by most people who have the opportunity to opt out. You’ve never heard of it and you’ll miss the emails. The Burden of Opting Out of AI Training It’s completely unfair to impose this on creators who are in training. If the government really thought this was good for creators, they would create an opt-in system.”
Newton-Rex said the number of signatories to the statement and the breadth of creative talent they represent makes it clear that the opt-out system is seen by creators as “totally unfair.” said. The statement was also signed by creative industry groups and companies, including the American Federation of Musicians, the American Actors Guild SAG-AFTRA, the Writers Council of Europe, and Universal Music Group.
