A bill that has launched an extraordinary stand -off between some of the UK’s most high -profile artists – and their backers at the House of Lords – finally it has been passed.
Peirs wanted to amend the Dry-Tietal Data (Use and Access) bill, which would have forced tech companies to announce their use of copyright content when trained AI tools.
Without it, they argued, tech firms would be given free rein to help themselves in the UK content without paying for it, and then human artists would be trained to train their AI products to get out of work.
Sir Elton John told the BBC that it would be “theft, theft, a high scale steal”.
He was one of the several domestic names in the creative industries of Britain, including Sir Paul Macartney and Dua Lipa to oppose the government.
The government refused to amend. It says that it is already having a separate consultation around the copyright and wants to wait for its result.
Apart from this, there are plans for a separate AI bill. Critics of the companions’ proposal say it will stop the AI ​​industry and as a result Britain will be left behind in this attractive and rapidly growing field.
So, it left the bill in Limbo, between the houses of Commons and Lords for a month.
But it is now passed at the end, without modification, and once the royal assurance will be made the law.
Lord Berkeley, composer and broadcaster, said, “We can only do a lot here. I believe we have done it. It is dependent on the government and another place (Commons).”
The government has welcomed a comprehensive bill passing.
“This bill is about using data to develop the economy and improve people’s lives, from health to infrastructure and we can now meet with the task of doing so” said the spokesman of science, innovation and technology (DSIT).
There were other useful proposals within the bill caught in the crossfire of this line, including:
- If they die, new rules on the rights of the bereaved parents to reach the data of their children
- Changes to allow NHS Trusts to share patient data more easily
- A 3D underground map of UK pipes and cables, which aims to improve roadwork efficiency by reducing the possibility of accidentally dug.
The DSIT said, “Therefore it is good news for NHS workers and police, which will be spent for more than one lakh hours, bereaved parents, who will be supported to receive the answers they deserve, and people whom they will be kept online for new offenses for deepfact misuse,” said the DSIT.
But even though Lords have decided that they have spoken on AI, the argument has not gone away.
Those who fight the fight have not changed their minds. A filmmaker Bairon Kidron, who led the allegation for the amendment, told me that the bill was “best a pyramic victory” for the passing government, which means it would lose more than the profit.
The cost, she argues, is large-scale US-based AI developers away from the UK property as creative materials.
There are many people who disregard and strongly believe that the UK’s £ 124BN is in danger if the government is not actively attached to its demands.
Owen Meredith, the chief executive of the News Media Association, supported Lord’s, said the bill sent a “clear message” to the government that the Parliament, and 2.4 million creative activists of the UK, would fight tirelessly to implement our world-famous copyright law “.
“We are being told that AI will change everything, which, I am afraid, it means that we will discuss this during the debate on every bill,” the Baronas Dido Harding at the House of Lords said, recorded in Hansard. “We will be strong in the end.”
