🚨 The UK government is reportedly launching a consultation on Tuesday that will propose upending copyright law and handing the life's work of the UK's creators to AI companies. The details I've heard (I hope I'm wrong): - New copyright exception for AI training (i.e. no need to license training data) - Rights holders can 'reserve their rights' i.e. opt out - Give creators rights over their personality (essentially ban non-consensual deepfakes) If true, this would be disastrous for creators the creative industries. - Generative AI competes with its training data. This would allow AI companies to exploit people's work to build highly scalable competitors to them. - Opt-out doesn't work. Rights holders will have the illusion of control, nothing more. Most will miss the chance to opt out. Your work will be used in AI training whether you like it or not. - Banning non-consensual deepfakes should be table-stakes, not something that's presented in a package that also decimates copyright. - There will be questions over whether this is even legal under international copyright law (the Berne Convention), given that it clearly 'unreasonably prejudices the legitimate interests of the author'. It would fly in the face of the statement on AI training that's been signed by 37,000 creators in the UK and globally. If you're in the UK, please do everything you can to voice your opposition to this. Sign the statement, write to your MP, get others involved. #OurWorkIsNotYourData

🚨 The UK government is reportedly launching a consultation on Tuesday that will propose upending copyright law and handing the life's work of the UK's creators to AI companies. The details I've heard (I hope I'm wrong): - New copyright exception for AI training (i.e. no need to license training data) - Rights holders can 'reserve their rights' i.e. opt out - Give creators rights over their personality (essentially ban non-consensual deepfakes) If true, this would be disastrous for creators the creative industries. - Generative AI competes with its training data. This would allow AI companies to exploit people's work to build highly scalable competitors to them. - Opt-out doesn't work. Rights holders will have the illusion of control, nothing more. Most will miss the chance to opt out. Your work will be used in AI training whether you like it or not. - Banning non-consensual deepfakes should be table-stakes, not something that's presented in a package that also decimates copyright. - There will be questions over whether this is even legal under international copyright law (the Berne Convention), given that it clearly 'unreasonably prejudices the legitimate interests of the author'. It would fly in the face of the statement on AI training that's been signed by 37,000 creators in the UK and globally. If you're in the UK, please do everything you can to voice your opposition to this. Sign the statement, write to your MP, get others involved. #OurWorkIsNotYourData