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Creative industries are among the UK’s crown jewels – and AI is out to steal them | John Naughton
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Creative industries are among the UK’s crown jewels – and AI is out to steal them | John Naughton

Creative industries are among the UK’s crown jewels – and AI is out to steal them | John Naughton
Source: The Guardian
Published: Feb, 22 2025 16:00

The tech firms’ efforts to change copyright laws and gain free access to intellectual property is patently wrong. There are decades when nothing happens (as Lenin is – wrongly – supposed to have said) and weeks when decades happen. We’ve just lived through a few weeks like that. We’ve known for decades that some American tech companies were problematic for democracy because they were fragmenting the public sphere and fostering polarisation. They were a worrying nuisance, to be sure, but not central to the polity.

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