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Robots sacked, screenings shut down: a new movement of luddites is rising up against AI | Ed Newton-Rex

Company after company is swallowing the hype, only to be forced into embarrassing walkbacks by anti-AI backlash, writes Ed Newton-Rex, founder of Fairly Trained

A company swallows the AI hype, thinks jumping on board will paint it as innovative, and entirely fails to understand the growing anti-AI sentiment taking hold among many of its customers. When the Recording Industry Association of America recently sued two AI music-generation companies for “copyright infringement on an almost unimaginable scale”, musicians and fans took to the internet to voice their support. Speakers at the Tony Blair Institute’s Future of Britain summit, held a few weeks ago, outlined why building strength in AI is “the only option for a forward-looking British government”.

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