Reacting to the unforeseen speed at which artificial intelligence and related technologies have been developing, governments have been forced to match this pace and steamroll through ethical frameworks for governing AI. Everyone can understand the need for these new regulations, but for chief information officers and especially those in AI companies, so much rapid change has equaled the kind of uncertainties that they would prefer to avoid. 

Open letter to culture secretary also proposes ‘freelancers’ commissioner’ to champion cause of the low-paid in creative industries

The COPIED Act, introduced by a bipartisan group of senators, aims to protect journalists and artists from unauthorized use of their work by AI models and requires AI tools to attach and preserve content origin information.

OpenAI supports a California bill, AB 3211, which requires watermarking AI-generated content to enhance transparency, especially with upcoming US elections.

The creative industries have not yet found a collective and practical response to the existential threats presented by AI tools such as AI image generators. Over the last two years, AI and big technology companies have challenged the existing conventions and thinking surrounding copyright and the ownership of art, and thus more pressingly how money is made from creativity.