As policy makers in the UK weigh how to regulate the AI industry, Nick Clegg, former UK deputy prime minister and former Meta executive, claimed a push for artist consent would \u201cbasically kill\u201d the AI industry.<\/p>\n
Speaking at an event promoting his new book, Clegg said the creative community should have the right to opt out of having their work used to train AI models. But he claimed it wasn\u2019t feasible to ask for consent before ingesting their work first.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the creative community wants to go a step further,\u201d Clegg said according to The Times<\/a>. \u201cQuite a lot of voices say, \u2018You can only train on my content, [if you] first ask\u2019. And I have to say that strikes me as somewhat implausible because these systems train on vast amounts of data.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI just don\u2019t know how you go around, asking everyone first. I just don\u2019t see how that would work,\u201d Clegg said. \u201cAnd by the way if you did it in Britain and no one else did it, you would basically kill the AI industry in this country overnight.\u201d<\/p>\n The comments follow a back-and-forth in Parliament over new legislation that aims to give creative industries more insight into how their work is used by AI companies. An amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill<\/a> would require technology companies to disclose<\/a> what copyrighted works were used to train AI models. Paul McCartney, Dua Lipa, Elton John, and Andrew Lloyd Webber are among the hundreds<\/a> of musicians, writers, designers, and journalists who signed an open letter<\/a> in support of the amendment earlier in May.<\/p>\n The amendment \u2014 introduced by Beeban Kidron, who is also a film producer and director \u2014 has bounced around gaining support<\/a>. But on Thursday members of parliament rejected the proposal<\/a>, with technology secretary Peter Kyle saying the \u201cBritain\u2019s economy needs both [AI and creative] sectors to succeed and to prosper.\u201d Kidron and others have said<\/a> a transparency requirement would allow copyright law to be enforced, and that AI companies would be less likely to \u201csteal\u201d work in the first place if they are required to disclose what content they used to train models.<\/p>\n In an op-ed in the Guardian<\/a> Kidron promised that \u201cthe fight isn\u2019t over yet,\u201d as the Data (Use and Access) Bill returns<\/a> to the House of Lords in early June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As policy makers in the UK weigh how to regulate the AI industry, Nick Clegg, former UK deputy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,1192,77,269,12,46,326,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-133752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-creators","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-policy","15":"tag-tech","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114575223434145035","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}