Musicians from ABBA, Radiohead and The Cure have joined actors and authors in signing a letter of protest against mining their artistic skills to build artificial intelligence tools.
Thousands of artists signed the letter released Tuesday, the latest public warning about artificial intelligence tools that can spit out synthetic images, music and writing after being trained on huge collections of human-made works.
“The unlicensed use of creative works to train generative AI represents a significant and unfair threat to the livelihoods of the people behind these works, and should not be allowed,” the petition says.
Among the signatories is Björn Ulvaeus of Swedish major group ABBARobert Smith, Thom Yorke of The Cure and his Radiohead bandmates. Writers including Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro and actors Julianne Moore, Kevin Bacon and Rosario Dawson also signed the agreement.
Best-selling novelist James Patterson signed a letter Tuesday and another An open letter last year It was organized by the Authors Guild, which later filed a lawsuit against the AI companies that is still ongoing in federal court in New York.
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