AI is dressing up greed as progress on creative rights
- Mar 16
- 1 min read
Generative AI models require immense quantities of human-created content and some of their developers have been as cavalier about copyright as they are about privacy. The New York Times is currently suing Microsoft and OpenAI for using its journalism to train ChatGPT.
As that battle reaches a head, the UK government is about to issue an update on how it proposes to overhaul the intellectual property framework for AI.
The UK has one of the world’s most successful creative industries and the oldest copyright law. It also has a government which fears losing out in the global AI race. Creatives want the existing law to be enforced; tech companies want it loosened.
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