Thousands of British musicians, artists, authors and journalists have joined a wave of protests against government proposals that could make it easier for tech companies to use their work to train artificial intelligence models.
On Tuesday, the government will close a consultation into plans for the future of copyright and AI, which suggests a so-called “rights reservation” system where every company, artist or author would need to opt out of their work being utilised and copied by tech groups.
Creative sector and media groups are responding with an industry campaign on Tuesday called “Make it Fair”, as part of a co-ordinated wave of protests planned to highlight the dangers of this approach.