Science Minister Peter Kyle is opening the door to a change in copyright law, which could mean the firms scooping up the internet would be able to pillage human endeavour willy-nilly unless a copyright holder EXPLICITLY opts out.
Thankfully wiser heads in No10 say it will be more love-bombing than Love Actually when the PM arrives at the White House with an invitation for Trump to meet the King at Balmoral in his back pocket.
In a particularly cringeworthy fashion, they have been pushing for Sir Keir Starmer to recreate the famous movie scene where the PM takes time out from chasing a tea-lady round the corridors of power and sticks it to a boorish US President live on TV.
A Labour MP even tells me one slick-suited corporate lobbyist from an online giant was brazen enough to directly dangle investment in their constituency if they got on board with the copyright changes.
Films, books, songs, shows, poems and, dare I say, newspapers are all vacuumed up into the AI hive mind for free, making these firms billions of dollars but leaving the actual content creators short-changed.
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