British creatives are again Oppose AI developers to speak out Access copyrighted materials. The author society has A public letter was published Calls on British Secretary of State Lisa Nandy to demand LLM on its LLM, Llama 3. The signatories of the letter may infringe copyright.
Articles from March 20 Atlantic As the driving force for letters. It reported that Meta used a pirated collection of 7.5 million books to train its AI models. Over the past few weeks, anyone on the internet may have seen videos of heartbreaking authors who learn that their work is available in databases (and can be used by meta without their permission). one US litigation The Fung Kong CEO Mark Zuckerberg has approved the use of Libgen’s data to train its AI. Plaintiffs in the lawsuit include writers Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates.
“These cases illustrate the immoral behaviors exhibited by global tech companies that appear to utilize copyrighted materials, which are safe because they know they will not be held in custody,” the authors’ association said in a letter. “This has to change and now it must be held accountable to global tech companies and pay the price for their use of authors’ work.”
The author begged Nandy to bring the Meta-Senior Executives to the Council and to commit them to respect the copyright and to indemnify the author of any previous infringement.
The letter continues: “In view of the great cost and complexity of litigation against such a deep pocket, the author is almost powerless.” “We call on you and the British Government to take all possible actions to ensure that the rights, interests and livelihoods of the authors are fully protected and that action shall not be further delayed, without doubt, without doubt, without doubt, given that the rights of the creator are systematically, repeatedly overlooked, and will have a catastrophic and irreversible impact on all British authors.”
Artists in the creative industry have also recently protested the UK government’s proposal to change copyright laws in December 2024. This shift will provide AI developers with copyright exemptions and require creatives to “opt out” or allow access to their materials.
In February, more than 1,000 musicians released an album titled Is this what we want?,,,,, There are 12 songs spelled out: “The British government must not legalize music theft to benefit AI companies.” It is with the British News Media Association Make it fair exercise Call on the government to support the creative industry and compensate these people if AI is allowed to train their work.
From Paul McCartney to Helen Fielding, the same week creatives also shared an open letter against the proposal. Posted in era“There is no moral or economic argument for stealing our copyright. Taking it away will destroy the industry and steal the future of the next generation,” it said.
