Get the latest tech news
Kevin Bacon, Kate McKinnon, and other creatives warn of ‘unjust’ AI threat
Unauthorized AI training threatens livelihoods, their statement says.
Thousands of creatives, including famous actors like Kevin Bacon and Kate McKinnon, along with other actors, authors, and musicians, have signed a statement warning that the unpermitted use of copyrighted materials to train AI models threatens the people who made those creative works. Scarlett Johansson, who had a high-profile spat with OpenAI after accusations it modeled GPT-4o’s voice after her, isn’t on the list. Neither are actors like Dame Judi Dench and John Cena, who signed up to have Meta AI’s voice chat system replicate them.
Or read this on The Verge