EWC supports the Statement on AI training and joins hundreds and thousands authors and artists:

The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.

The initiator of this statement is Ed Newton-Rex, founder of the non-profit Fairly Trained (https://www.fairlytrained.org) that works to get a fairer deal for creators in the age of generative AI. About Edward: https://www.wired.com/…/ai-executive-ed-newton-rex…/.

A crucial moment in history

As explained by the initiator, the statement is intentionally short and simple in order to invite lots of people to support. It is a critical moment to send this message, because unlicensed training on creative works has rapidly taken hold in the AI industry and there seems to be an increase in tech companies’ lobbying for the right to use creative work without a license.

EWC joining [artistic] forces to endure in [human] art

Two days after publishing the statement on 23th of October received more than 19.000 signatures from across the creative sectors – musicians, authors, artists, actors, writers, translators. In addition to the EWC, numerous other authors’, creators’ and rightsholders’ organisations have already supported it. Individual signatories include Nobel laureates, Academy Award-winning actors, Oscar-winning composers, and multi-platinum selling musicians.

All EWC member associations and their individual members are welcome to sign, and to share the statement.

Sign: https://www.aitrainingstatement.org