The creatives believe tech giants are infringing copyrights on a large scale, by using billions of copyrighted images, texts, songs, whatever to train their AI models. The creatives also are complaining about the lack of transparency around how much and how the tech giants are get their data. The tech giants on the other hand express that the copyright laws devised many decades ago don’t apply to what they do. On this backdrop, the UK government’s “exception to copyright” proposal seems to behind the creative industries’ blistering response; an umbrella body of 37 trade organisations, called the Creative Rights in AI Coalition (Crac).

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