""Around 800 artists, writers, actors, and musicians signed on to a new campaign against what they call "theft at a grand scale" by AI companies. The signatories of the campaign - called "Stealing Isn't Innovation" - include authors George Saunders and Jodi Picoult, actors Cate Blanchett and Scarlett Johansson, and musicians like the band R.E.M., Billy Corgan, and The Roots.""
""Driven by fierce competition for leadership in the new GenAI technology, profit-hungry technology companies, including those among the richest in the world as well as private equity-backed ventures, have copied a massive amount of creative content online without authorization or payment to those who created it," a press release reads. "This illegal intellectual property grab fosters an information ecosystem dominated by misinformation, deepfakes, and a vapid artificial avalanche of low-quality materials ['AI slop'], risking AI model collapse and directly threatening America's AI superiority""
Around 800 artists, writers, actors, and musicians joined a campaign called "Stealing Isn't Innovation" to protest unauthorized use of creative work by AI companies. Signatories include George Saunders, Jodi Picoult, Cate Blanchett, Scarlett Johansson, R.E.M., Billy Corgan, and The Roots. The campaign alleges profit-driven technology firms copied massive amounts of online creative content without authorization or payment, calling the practice an illegal intellectual property grab. The campaign warns that such copying fosters misinformation, deepfakes, and a surge of low-quality "AI slop," could risk AI model collapse, and threatens America's AI leadership while some companies seek legal changes to preserve those practices.
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