Songwriters from Abba and Radiohead and authors including Kazuo Ishiguro and James Patterson are among more than 11,000 artists warning against the threat of artificial intelligence to the creative industries.
“The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted,” the letter on Tuesday said.
Alongside Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus and Thom Yorke and other members of Radiohead, signatories include actors Julianne Moore and Kevin Bacon, authors Ian Rankin, Antonia Fraser and Kate Mosse, musicians Robert Smith of The Cure, Jason Kay and Billy Bragg.