Thousands of creatives, including famous actors like Kevin Bacon and Kate McKinnon, along with other actors, authors and musicians, have signed a statement warning that the unauthorized use of copyrighted materials to train ai models threatens the people who produced those creative works. So far, 11,500 names are on the list of signatories.
Here is the one sentence statement:
“The unlicensed use of creative works to train generative ai is a significant and unfair threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and should not be allowed.”
The statement was released by Fairly Trained, a group that advocates for fair use of training data by ai companies. Ed Newton-Rex, CEO of Fairly Trained, said ai-warning”>the guardian that generative ai companies need “people, computing and data” to build their models, and while they spend “large sums” on the first two, “they hope to take the third (training data) for free.” Newton-Rex founded Fairly Trained after leaving Stability ai. ai-copyright-debate-continues-with-stability-executive-exit”>accusing Generative ai from “exploitative creators.”
There are also some notable names that do not appear among the signatories. Scarlett Johansson, who had a high-profile dispute with OpenAI after accusations that she modeled GPT-4o's voice after her, is not on the list. Neither are actors like Dame Judi Dench and John Cena, who registered for the Meta ai voice chat system to replicate them.
