Monday Morning Moan - the UK Government finally responds to AI and copyright report, but don't hold your breath for any positive action...
Anyone expecting principled, defensive action by the UK Government on AI and copyright will be experiencing a familiar sensation today: that unique blend of ennui, futility, exhaustion, and sadness that tells you nothing has changed – yet again.
For a government known for a frustrating mix of navel-gazing, inaction, and bursts of impetuous policymaking, followed – months later – by damage-limiting u-turns, its response to the recent House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee report on AI and copyright offers more of the same.
Published a week after the Committee’s deadline, the eleven-page document offers no new information, no new ideas, and no detailed point-by-point commentary or rebuttal of the Committee’s findings. Instead, it treads water against a wave of documented unethical behavior by US AI vendors, while observing that 'something must be done' to balance competing interests.
But at least the response only takes eleven pages to...
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