Because “it’s a significant, unfair threat to their livelihoods”
The singer of Radiohead Tom York, Bjorn Ulveus of ABBA and actress Julianne Moore are among 13,500 signatories from creative industries to an open letter warning companies Artificial Intelligence that the unlicensed use of their work poses a “serious, unfair threat” to the artists’ livelihoods.
The open letter comes amid legal battles between creative professionals and tech companies over the use of their work to train AI models such as ChatGPT and claim that using their intellectual property without permission constitutes copyright infringement.
“The use of creative works without a license to train genetic Artificial Intelligence it is a significant, unfair threat to the livelihoods of people behind these projects and should not be allowedsays the open letter, according to The Guardian newspaper.
Thousands of creative professionals from the worlds of literature, music, film, theater and television have endorsed the statement, among others authors such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Anne Patchett and Kate Moss, musicians such as Robert Smith of Cure and actors like Kevin Bacon and Rosario Dawson.
Last April more than 200 artists, including Stevie Wonder, Katy Perry and the bands Imagine Dragons and Pearl Jam signed an open letter submitted by the non-profit organization Artist Rights Alliance, calling on AI technology companies, developers, platforms and digital music services to stop using AI.
