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Ed Newton-Rex
CEO of Fairly Trained / Composer. Working towards fairer training data practices in generative AI.
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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...
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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.
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
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
why does the uk government's 'ai jobcentre in your pocket' output copyrighted song lyrics? has it been trained on them?
It is deeply disappointing that the Pope’s Encyclical Letter on AI didn’t mention the theft that most generative AI models are built on. What happened to ‘Thou shalt not steal’? 1/3
Meta tried to dismiss a lawsuit that claims they torrented 1000s of adult films for AI training. The motion to dismiss was just denied; judge said “Plaintiffs have plausibly alleged that Defendant is liable for direct, vicarious, and contributory copyright infringement”.
AI music company Suno has just been sued again. A duo of multi-instrumentalists called The American Dollar says Suno (i) trained on their music and (ii) has caused an 80% drop in their licensing revenue. They accuse Suno of “massive and ongoing infringement”.
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