Are tech companies killing the arts? A group of thousands of high-profile creatives is campaigning to win back their intellectual property from the gobbling robots.
AI protest by 10,500 creative leaders
Dehumanised: Thousands of creative individuals have signed the petition, organised by British composer and former AI executive Ed Newton-Rex, which comes at a time when lawmakers are considering how to respond to data being scraped for generative AI development. Glossary
Clones - An identical copy of a living organism.
Soulless - Lacking character.
Signatories - People who have signed something. For example, there were 59 signatories to Charles I's death warrant; eight were hung, drawn, and quartered after the restoration of the monarchy, while some (already dead) had their bodies dug up and their heads put on spikes.
Generative - Has the power to create or produce.