‘Thousands of authors including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman have published an “empty” #book to protest against #AI firms using their work without permission.’
Yet #copyright itself has long been criticised as part of broader systems of enclosure and #SettlerViolence. So the assertion of copyright is not a victimless crime, any more than is the training of AI #chatbots and image generators on vast #datasets (often scraped without permission from the open web, digital repositories and shadow or #pirate libraries containing copyrighted books).
So what exactly is being defended here? Do the authors protesting against the training of AI really not know the long history of critique of copyright? Or do they know perfectly and are just too selfish and are profiting too much from it themselves to want to challenge it or think of something different?
The Guardian
Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their workAbout 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign
