Over 700 actors, musicians, and creators have come together to call out AI for stealing their work and to take a stand against its ongoing theft. It's a clear line in the sand that the people whose work has propped up one of the fastest-growing industries will not take it anymore. The massive new campaign is called "Stealing Isn't Innovation" and hails from people like Scarlett Johansson and Cate Blanchett, to the band R.E.M., and Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan. Major unions like SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America (WGA), the Recording Industry Association of America, The NewsGuild, and the NFL Players Association are all involved, too. Their plan is to actually do something about AI and to gather the people whose work has been used to train these programs and to fight back as one big collective. And it turns out, when you get 700 of the most successful people ever together, and match their power with some of their unions, it's a pretty formidable force. Let's dive in. What is the Campaign About?The campaign was launched by the Human Artistry Campaign and takes direct aim at tech giants that use copyrighted movies, music, and books to "train" generative AI models without proper payment or permissions. They want places like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and Sora to answer for their violations. The campaign argues that using stolen human work to build commercial products without authorization, compensation, or credit undermines the very foundation of the creative economy.It's theft, and the people...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 22 January