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In the news: More than 13,000 creatives (including some famous authors, musicians, and actors) signed a statement that expresses their growing concerns over the unauthorized use of copyrighted works to train generative AI models. The one-sentence statement published by Fairly Trained, an advocacy group founded by former Stability AI executive Ed Newton-Rex, reads: "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."
Newton-Rex told The Guardian, “There are three key resources that generative AI companies need to build AI models: people, compute, and data. They spend vast sums on the first two – sometimes a million dollars per engineer, and up to a billion dollars per model. But they expect to take the third – training data – for free.” ...