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UK Authors' Union Issues Guidance to 'Protect' Writers’ Work From AI
The Society of Authors warned writers to be careful as “money today could simply speed up the absence of any work at all in the future.” British writers’ trade union the Society of Authors (SoA) has issued practical steps for pract
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The Society of Authors, a British writers' trade union, has issued guidance to protect writers' work from the potential adverse effects of artificial intelligence (AI) in the creative industries. The guidance advises writers to be aware of any rights they could be forfeiting in their contracts, pay attention to the contractual terms of use of their work, and avoid allowing publishers to make substantial use of AI without consent. Performers and audiobook narrators are also warned about the potential compromise of their future work by permitting the copying of their voice. The guidance also highlights the risks of work stored on cloud services being used in the development and training of machine learning algorithms.
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- UK Authors' Union Issues Guidance to 'Protect' Writers’ Work From AI The Society of Authors warned writers to be careful as “money today could simply speed up the absence of any work at all in the future.”
- British writers’ trade union the Society of Authors (SoA) has issued practical steps for practitioners looking to protect themselves against a panoply of potentially adverse effects from artificial intelligence, as the technology impacts on the creative industries. The guidance chiefly covers the contractual use of authors’ original work by publi...
- Performers and audiobook narrators are warned to be aware that by permitting the copying of their voice they could potentially compromise their future work by inadvertently permitting sophisticated speech modeling systems to substitute for performances. The SoA asks that writers pay attention to the contractual terms of use of their work, how lon...
- The guidance also advises against allowing publishers to “make substantial use of AI for any purpose in connection with your work” without consent. It goes on to list purposes like proof-reading, indexing, translation, and fact-checking and states that there are “questions over the current level of expertise afforded by AI.” Finally, the SoA warn...
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