Explain yourselves! Creators’ leader puts AIs in the dock

Nicola Solomon says government needs to act on the ‘theft’ of creators’ work, and believes Big Tech has much to gain from acting fairly

LAST WEEK a coalition representing more than half a million creators wrote to leading AIs including OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Apple and Meta saying that under UK law they have no right to use content for model training without consent.

The Creators’ Rights Alliance (CRA) said AI scraping had caused “great harm” to rightsholders who now needed to be comp…