AI needing artist permission would kill industry says Clegg
As the UK government works to regulate the AI industry, former deputy PM and Meta executive Nick Clegg has said that a need for artist permission would “basically kill” the AI industry.
Speaking at an event to promote his new book, Clegg said that the creative community should have a right to opt out of their work being used to train AI models. But it wasn’t feasible, he said, to ask for consent first before using their work.
“I think the creative community wants to go a step further,” Clegg said. “Quite a lot of voices say, ‘You can only train on my content, [if you] first ask’. And I have to say that strikes me as somewhat implausible because these systems train on vast amounts of data. I just don’t know how you go around, asking everyone first. I just don’t see how that would work. And 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.”
These comments come following discussions in Parliament over new legislation that hopes to give the creative sector more insight into how their work is used by AI companies. An amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill would require technology firms to disclose which copyrighted work were used to train AI models.
Paul McCartney, Dua Lipa, Elton John, and Andrew Lloyd Webber are among the artists who signed an open letter in support of the amendment.
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