Ed Newton-Rex

The UK government should continue to resist this brazen demand for a handout of artists' work to the most powerful companies in the world. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202... /end

telegraph.co.uk

Full piece: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... /end

Creatives sound alarm on copyright as Pocock calls $50bn datacentre proposal ‘ultimate dirty deal’ theguardian.com

impossible to see this coming www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

telegraph.co.uk

The Atlantic just released a tool that lets you see if your music has been scraped for AI training. Recordings I sang on in King's College Choir are in there. So is the music of millions of other musicians. Check it here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The Millions of Songs Mashed Into AI-Generated Music theatlantic.com

If the Australian Government accedes to Anthropic's demands and creates a copyright exception for AI training, the British Government should file a dispute at the WTO. www.afr.com/companies/in... 🧵 1/n

Anthropic wants Australian data centres, copyright deal ahead of IPO afr.com

Non-paywalled version: www.theatlantic.com/category/ai-...

AI Watchdog - The Atlantic theatlantic.com

a. www.topmusicattorney.com/indieailawsuit b. www.loevy.com/class-action... /end

Music AI Class Action loevy.com

AI is Appropriated Intelligence. It is built on the work of the world's creatives - authors, artists, musicians, actors, voice artists, designers, journalists, directors - without permission. 'Appropriated' is a more useful description of the tech than 'Artificial' IMO.

99 authors just sued Anthropic, accusing them of pirating books to train AI. The lawsuit also names 2 Anthropic founders: Dario Amodei & Ben Mann. (It is established fact that Anthropic downloaded millions of pirated books, & that Ben Mann personally did some of this.) The lawsuits keep coming.

Reading the Papal Encyclical again, it strikes me that not only is there no mention of the theft of creative work behind AI - there is no acknowledgement that pre-training data includes people’s creative work at all. This is an unfortunate omission. 🧵 1/6

People talk a lot about speculative AI risks. But the theft of creative work to power AI isn’t a risk - it’s an actual harm that has already happened, is still happening, and needs to be redressed.

Hugging Face has just been sued for alleged copyright infringement for hosting & distributing copyrighted images, used for AI training. 🧵 1/3

Saying AI is just a tool in the creative process is misleading - because this isn’t the AI companies’ aim for it. The aim of the (big) AI company is to automate more are more. There is no hard limit at which point they will say ‘ok, that’s enough automated now’. 🧵 1/6

RouteNote, a platform that lets you distribute your music to Spotify etc., is automatically opting its users into an AI licensing deal with Meta. They say “This is your choice”, and give you 14 days to opt out - but lots of users will miss this email & therefore miss the chance to opt out. 🧵 1/2

🚨 AI companies are trying to use their vast, ill-gotten wealth to buy a change to the law in Australia. They say they will invest in data centers *if* the Australian government hands them the work of Australian creatives. This is a grotesque abuse of power. 🧵 1/3

After the Chair of the UK's Sovereign AI Fund called me a troll and blocked me, I'm pleased to hear that the UK government understands that I "would have found [his] tone abrupt or discourteous", and that they "have discussed this with Mr Wise". 🧵 1/6

It’s no longer just AI companies & their founders being sued over AI training - individual researchers are now being sued, too. In a new lawsuit, two authors allege that Guillaume Lample, while an AI researcher at Meta, torrented 70 terabytes of pirated books… 1/2