A group of well-known people from cinema and music has signed a strong statement asserting that creative licenses are being misused.
Probably one of the phrases I liked the most from the thousands we can read on social media is the one that claims the dream was for artificial intelligences to take care of tasks that waste our time, like household chores or automatic jobs like Excel sheets, to allow space for humans to develop their art and creativity.
And not that AIs have come to create art and leave human creativity sidelined. This is happening because many of the tools being released on the market are specifically designed for drawing or writing books.
Now thousands of artists have signed a letter that has been made public about artificial intelligence tools that can generate images, music, and synthetic writings after being trained on vast amounts of works created by humans.
This is what the signed letter says:
In the statement, you find musicians from groups like ABBA, Radiohead, and The Cure joining actors (like Julianne Moore, Kevin Bacon, and Rosario Dawson) and authors (like Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro) to sign a letter of protest against the exploitation of their art to build artificial intelligence tools.
The written statement is short but powerful:
“The unlicensed use of creative works to train a generative AI is a significant and unfair threat to the livelihood of the people behind those works and should not be allowed,” the petition states.
We have already seen problems that various artists have faced with artificial intelligence. For example, the well-known Scarlett Johansson sued a developer who used her voice for an AI.
Additionally, the acclaimed actress Scarlett Johansson also issued a statement revealing that Sam Altman, the leader of OpenAI, contacted her some time ago to hire her to voice their ChatGPT, and she refused. She was then surprised to see that a voice almost identical to hers was being used in the Sky bot. The company had to remove the voice after the artist’s lawyers threatened to sue.
