Your article (Kate Bush and Damon Albarn among 1,000 artists on silent AI protest album, 25 February) quotes a government spokesperson: “As it stands, the UK’s current regime for copyright and AI is holding back the creative industries, media and AI sector from realising their full potential.”.
To suggest that an artist’s full potential can only be reached with the help of artificial intelligence is to dismiss what makes us human and to ignore the vast scope, power and achievement of thousands of years of human creativity.
I suggest that all those involved in this AI-biased consultation spend time away from their screens, make something with their own heads or hands, and then listen to those deeply involved in creativity to understand what they are stealing, repackaging and, more disastrously, offering: AI-manufactured pseudo-creativity.
Proposed changes to copyright law would deny what makes us human, says Helen Ward.
Creativity is a source of wellbeing and comfort even for those whose work may never be seen, heard or read by anyone else.
