Our previous pal John Degen is the CEO of The Writers Union of Canada (comply with @TWUC) . John has lengthy been the very mannequin of an artist rights advocate and campaigner for honest therapy for authors usually and Canadian authors specifically. We must always all aspire to being as articulate and relentless as John and we’ve been lucky that he participated within the Artist Rights Symposium III at UGA. I feel we have to be lucky once more quickly.
John not too long ago posted on LinkedIn about his interview with Radio Canada on how AI is destroying authors and what to do about it. John attracts precisely the fitting connection that we may all take heed of, so please take heed to John’s interview. He stated in his LinkedIn publish:
I spoke with Jonathan Pinto on Up North (CBC Radio Sudbury) about books being shovelled into the voracious maw of synthetic intelligence with out permission from, or fee to, authors.
AI builders are simply the most recent land-grabbing robber barons from Silicon Valley. The entire Massive Tech modus operandi is to vacuum up human creation at no cost, after which promote it again to us layered with promoting… and with out care or concern for the harm they do.
Oh, you personal that work, and count on to be paid for it? Sue us.
As we head into this Canadian federal election, I need to hear from these campaigning to be our lawmakers what they are going to do to repair & shield artistic markets and correctly regulate tech & different industrial customers of created content material.
The age of governments throwing up their fingers and meekly repeating the phrase “disruption” ought to be properly and actually over.
