{"id":13021,"date":"2024-01-21T09:37:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T08:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/21\/we-need-to-come-together-british-artists-team-up-to-fight-ai-image-generating-software\/"},"modified":"2024-01-21T09:37:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T08:37:14","slug":"we-need-to-come-together-british-artists-team-up-to-fight-ai-image-generating-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/21\/we-need-to-come-together-british-artists-team-up-to-fight-ai-image-generating-software\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We need to come together\u2019: British artists team up to fight AI image-generating software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US lawyers approached about class action against Midjourney and other AI firms accused of \u2018copyright laundering\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Since the emergence of Midjourney and other image generators, artists have been watching and wondering whether AI is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/12\/when-ai-can-make-art-what-does-it-mean-for-creativity-dall-e-midjourney\" title=\"\">great opportunity or an existential threat<\/a>. Now, after a list of 16,000 names emerged of artists whose work Midjourney had allegedly used to train its AI \u2013 including Bridget Riley, Damien Hirst, Rachel Whiteread, Tracey Emin, David Hockney and Anish Kapoor \u2013 the art world has issued a call to arms against the technologists.<\/p>\n<p>British artists have contacted US lawyers to discuss joining a class action against Midjourney and other AI firms, while others have told the <em>Observer<\/em> that they may bring their own legal action in the UK.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/jan\/21\/we-need-to-come-together-british-artists-team-up-to-fight-ai-image-generating-software\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b782be61db56a09cf87b4c5ec639ae8f070aeef7\/0_109_2688_1613\/master\/2688.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=92fb3e076e0827b317c9bc79313f00f2\" title=\"\u2018We need to come together\u2019: British artists team up to fight AI image-generating software\" \/>US lawyers approached about class action against Midjourney and other AI firms accused of \u2018copyright laundering\u2019<br \/>\nSince the emergence of Midjourney and other image generators, artists have been watching and wondering whether AI is a great opportunity or an existential threat. Now, after a list of 16,000 names emerged of artists whose work Midjourney had allegedly used to train its AI \u2013 including Bridget Riley, Damien Hirst, Rachel Whiteread, Tracey Emin, David Hockney and Anish Kapoor \u2013 the art world has issued a call to arms against the technologists.<br \/>\nBritish artists have contacted US lawyers to discuss joining a class action against Midjourney and other AI firms, while others have told the Observer that they may bring their own legal action in the UK. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US lawyers approached about class action against Midjourney and other AI firms accused of \u2018copyright laundering\u2019 Since the emergence of Midjourney and other image generators, artists have been watching and wondering whether AI is a great opportunity or an existential threat. Now, after a list of 16,000 names emerged of artists whose work Midjourney had &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/21\/we-need-to-come-together-british-artists-team-up-to-fight-ai-image-generating-software\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018We need to come together\u2019: British artists team up to fight AI image-generating software<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13021"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}