"The single biggest threat to the livelihood of authors and, by extension, to our culture, is not short attention spans. It is AI. The UK publishing industry worth more than 11bn, part of the 126bn that our creative industries generate for the British economy has sat by while big tech has swept copyrighted material from the internet in order to train their models."
"If you take away the one thing that makes us truly human our ability to think like humans, create stories and imagine new worlds we will live in a diminished world. Many great writers have written about why stories are the lifeblood of humanity and how an artist's job is to tell us truths we may not want to hear."
AI models trained on scraped copyrighted material pose a significant risk to writers' livelihoods and to cultural creativity. The UK publishing sector, worth more than £11bn within a £126bn creative industries contribution, has largely allowed large technology firms to harvest copyrighted content from the internet to train models. Legal settlements, such as a $1.5bn case involving an AI startup, have emerged but the practice persists at scale. Great storytelling derives from lived experience, historical context and craft; automated regeneration of others' material cannot substitute for that personal creative process. Protecting creators requires consent, compensation and stronger safeguards against mass data scraping.
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