In the UK, the House of Lords has dealt a fourth defeat to the government over its plans to allow tech companies to use copyrighted material to train their models.
The Lords, who are looking for more protections for artists from AI, rejected the latest amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill.
The BBC reports that peers backed calls for greater transparency after writers such as Kazuo Ishiguro and Kate Mosse, and musicians such as Sir Elton John and Paul McCartney, warned of the threat to creative industries. Writers and musicians want tech companies to ask for permission for use of their creative content; tech companies argue that artists should choose to opt out if they don’t want their content to be used in the training of AI.
The House of Lords has dealt a fourth defeat to the government over its plans to allow tech companies to use copyrighted material to train their models.
The Lords, who are looking for more protections for artists from AI, rejected the latest amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill.
The argument is over how best to balance the demands of two huge industries: the tech and creative sectors.
More specifically, it’s about the fairest way to allow AI developers access to creative content in order to make better AI tools – without undermining the livelihoods of the people who make that content in the first place.
The stand-off is likely to last for some time.