Artist 30-Word Declaration Against AI Theft
“The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.”
AI is robbing creators.
This week, over ten thousand and counting of their number took a stand to arrest the theft.
The person helming this fightback crafted the above statement of intent. Also shown in his tweet below.
As one insider now poacher-turned-gamekeeper noted, the wannabe AI giants have three pillars; people, compute & data. They pay literally millions nay billions for the first two. Yet expect the third for free.
Aside from my own topic interest, this struck me in similar vein to a 32-word purpose I blogged on the other day from another field.
The artists blighted here follow a subtly different template.
The [issue of concern] for [particular ends] is a threat to [the affected], and must not be permitted.
You could slice this up in other angles. This way's focus is very much on halting the undesirable asap.
It may well prove a useful aside for running through with a prospect.
Take that which they aim to stop happening. And sculpt a call-to-arms with them around this format.
The more specific the better. My sense is that rather as a general pitch it might prove more powerful and of easier access when tailored.
Nevertheless by way of example, as for my present-day Video Calls That Sell specialism, here's an opening option.
The unprepared random use of video calls for mere substitute of in-person sales meetings is a major, costly threat to numbers your selling process delivers, and must not be permitted.
Especially if sympathetic with creatives or even a smite distrusting of Silicon Valley bros, time to collab on one for your current prospect?
As kinda one m'self, I feel immense empathy with creators against Big Tech's blatant banditry. Here's but one summary opinion from within the debate;
Google calls for a ‘text and data mining’ (TDM) exception to copyright. What Google calls ‘innovation’ is, in fact, copyright infringement on an unprecedented scale. That’s why the tech giant is demanding a new law to exempt it from copyright. Basically, the world’s fourth largest company, with a valuation of more than $2 trillion, wants a free pass to be a global pirate. It would like the Government to confiscate work that belongs to creators and rights holders so that it and other tech firms can commercialise new products and services. This TDM exception would allow Google to scrape the entire history of human creativity from the internet without permission and without payment.
Today we’re publishing a statement on AI training, signed by 10,000+ creators already:
— Ed Newton-Rex (@ednewtonrex) October 22, 2024
“The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.”
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