Human artists could disappear if copyright not protected from AI, MPs told Allowing the erosion of copyright rules to enable AI models to be trained on artists’ material could see human artists disappear and may damage culture, MPs have been told.
Speaking in an earlier session, AI expert James Smith, the co-founder and chief executive of Human Native AI, an AI data marketplace where AI developers can pay to access data, said it had to be accepted that the entire public internet had already been consumed by AI models.
Composer Max Richter said the training of AI models of copyrighted created material that could enable it to replicate human artists would “impoverish” human creators and lead to a “vanilla-isation” of music culture.
You’re going to get a ‘vanilla-isation’ of music culture as this automated material starts to edge out human creators, and I also think you’re going to get an impoverishing of human creators.
Mr Richter, and other representatives from the creative industries giving evidence, also said they would support a licensing system where AI developers had to pay to access content, but that more transparency measures were also needed in the sector.
