The UK’s creative industries have launched a campaign to highlight how their content is at risk of being given away for free to AI firms. Music Week has reported on the music industry’s concerns with the Labour government’s AI consultation process. It follows the launch of the government consultation in December that proposes introducing an exception to copyright law for AI training for commercial purposes. It would mean rights-holders having to formally opt out of their works being used for AI training. The consultation closes today (February 24). The Make It Fair campaign was developed to raise awareness among the British public about the “existential threat” posed to the creative industries from generative AI models, many of which scrape creative content from the internet without permission, acknowledgement and without […]
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