Createch – are policymakers finally addressing the conflict between AI vendors and creatives?
Since the generative AI boom began four years ago, the prevailing narrative has been that creatives and the technology sector are in vehement opposition to each other. That over-simplification stems from the bitter arguments over AI training and copyright, of course, with the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Suno, Stability AI, and others, accused of scraping the Web of proprietary data, including millions of in-copyright works.
While those accusations were true – as some AI executives have admitted – to characterize the confrontation as old media protesting the new, or as artists rebelling against the future, is a partial truth at best.
For one thing, some of the most ardent critics of vendors’ actions are technologists. Take artists’ champion Ed Newton-Rex, founder and CEO of Fairly Trained, who worked for many years in the tech sector – indeed, he founded an AI start-up. His beef with the industry concerns...
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