AI firms should pay for the creative content they rip-off to train their systems in the same way they pay staff wages and electricity bills, Labour ministers told
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AI firms should pay for the creative content they rip-off to train their systems in the same way they pay staff wages and electricity bills, ministers have been told. This comes as the Government was last night accused of failing to be an ‘honest broker’ over its plans to allow AI companies to ignore copyright rules when training their systems.
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There has been growing criticism over new Government proposals which would make it the responsibility of creative organisations to opt out, if they do not want their work exploited. Yesterday MPs raised concerns about the proposed scheme, as media minister Sir Chris Bryant made a ministerial statement on the consultation.
Liberal Democrat Sarah Olney told Mr Bryant: ‘Creatives deserve to be compensated for their work. ‘AI companies will happily pay the electricity bill for their data centres and wages for their staff. So why should they not also pay to access the creative content on which their models depend?’.
She said: ‘It’s clear that AI offers a fantastic opportunity for our economy, but it must supplement and grow industries rather than replace them wholesale.’. Recent research, reported by the BBC, showed that generative AI systems could use about 33 times more energy than machines running more specific software.
The Government was accused of failing to be an ‘honest broker’ over its plans to allow AI companies to ignore copyright rules when training their systems (file image). Shadow minister for science, innovation and technology, Dr Ben Spencer, criticised the Government saying it had appeared to have been one-sided on the issue.
