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1,000 artists release ‘silent’ album to protest UK copyright sell-out to AI
The U.K. government wants to move full steam ahead on big plans to use and build AI across the country, but not everyone is marching to the beat of its
The album — titled “Is This What We Want?” — features tracks from Kate Bush, contemporary classical composers Max Richter and Thomas Hewitt Jones, and Imogen Heap, among others, with co-writing credits from hundreds more, including big names like Annie Lennox, Damon Albarn, Billy Ocean, The Clash, Mystery Jets, Yusuf / Cat Stevens, Riz Ahmed, Tori Amos, and Hans Zimmer. Newton-Rex, however, thinks this effectively creates a lose-lose situation for artists, since there is no opt-out method in place, nor any clear way of being able to track what specific material has been fed into any AI system. Hewitt Jones — who threw a working keyboard into a harbor in Kent at an in-person protest not long ago (he fished it out, broken, afterwards) — said he’s considering markets like Switzerland for distributing his music in the future.
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