The generative AI boom is in full swing now. Some people are thrilled. Others, not so much.
At WIRED, I’ve been covering the resistance to artificial intelligence in the arts. A growing community of writers, programmers, artists, musicians, lawyers, researchers, policymakers, and regular concerned citizens is coalescing to look at this moment critically, to ask tough questions, and to advocate for guardrails to make sure that technological progress doesn’t destroy creative industries. Is scraping the web for training data ethical? Who gets to decide whether AI art is any good? How should copyright law apply to AI-generated work?
This collection gathers some of these stories, and I hope it will help you better understand what’s at stake in this moment, and why people feel so compelled to fight for a different future than the one envisioned by Big Tech.
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Kate Knibbs
Kate Knibbs is a senior writer at WIRED, covering culture. She was previously a writer at The Ringer and Gizmodo.