Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory, Richard Osman, and ~10K writers publish Don't Steal This Book, an “empty” book to protest AI companies using their work
About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign
The Guardian Dan Milmo
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Discussion
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@ednewtonrex
Ed Newton-Rex
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Today, we're publishing Don't Steal This Book - a (mostly) empty book from almost 10,000 authors, protesting the theft of their work by AI companies. The UK government is considering upending copyright law to benefit AI companies. Don't Steal This Book urges them not to. Apart [i…
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Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work
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@paularmstrongtbd
Paul Armstrong
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That'll show em. [embedded post]
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@senategabe
@senategabe
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Something I can't get over is for all the talk about how revolutionary AI is, what would also be revolutionary is just removing copyright for everything. — Imagine what everyone would create with that!
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@writersguildgb
@writersguildgb
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As we wait to hear from Ministers next week on copyright + AI, we support the ‘empty book’ campaign signed by thousands of authors, which shows the depth of feeling across the UK creative industries about the large-scale theft of writers' work — www.theguardian.com/technology/ …
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@emgeekay
Mary Grace
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“This is not a victimless crime - generative AI competes with the people whose work it is trained on, robbing them of their livelihoods. The government must protect the UK's creatives, and refuse to legalise the theft of creative work by AI companies.” — www.theguardian.com/te…
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@victoriastrauss.com
Victoria Strauss
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This is a protest not just against gen AI training generally, but against the UK government's proposal to allow AI companies to train on copyright-protected work unless the author/artist opts out — www.theguardian.com/technology/ 2...