Steve Rotherham - one of the last people in politics with integrity and balls. Almost all the others now superannuated SPADS.

Deal to get Napster for whole of UK discussed by Napster boss and minister theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

It is impossible to miss the fact that the AI backlash grows stronger every day. As teenagers die, young people find it harder to find jobs, creatives lose work & royalties, slop fills the airwaves, students cheat, we lose the ability to tell what's real, execs cut headcount,

The $1.5 billion settlement in the Anthropic copyright lawsuit is historic - the biggest ever copyright case payout, $3k each for 500,000 authors. But it’s frustrating that big AI companies can use the hype around AI to settle these lawsuits so easily. $1.5B is *3x* how much

A group of huge UK artists just accused the prime minister of failing to protect creatives’ human rights, by selling them out to AI companies. Labour is losing the creative sector in a bid to line its pockets with big tech money. Read the letter ⬇️

Well, it happened. Sir Demis Hassabis blocked me for asking whether Google pays for the creative work it trains its models on. I could lament the fragility of AI CEOs who won’t answer this simple question (the reason is obvious). Instead, I have a request. Please follow Demis,

Small but very important detail in this story about OpenAI's partnership with the UK government: OpenAI "is on board as a guaranteed customer" of UK compute. Would they use it for training? Doing so would require the government to change UK copyright law. Has the government

Here it is. The UK digital slavery deal in which we invite the worst companies on the planet to feast themselves on our national assets & compromise our national security. This isn’t just naive, it’s dangerous. We have just tied ourselves to a technofascist surveillance state.

OpenAI seems to have trained Sora on Hollywood movies, Netflix shows, TikTok, Twitch, the NBA, and video games. Fantastic reporting from the Washington Post. washingtonpost.com/technology/int…

In a now-deleted tweet from earlier this year, the UK government’s new adviser on tech seemed to endorse letting AI companies train on copyrighted work for free, without even giving them an opt-out. The thread she called “excellent” was devoted to proposing this. It was from a

More now then ever, in a world in which truth and honest reporting is dying in front of our eyes, let's put a fire under weak politicians and get a decent, brave UK press. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-fr…

Spotify's announcement on AI yesterday shows they are completely unserious about clamping down on AI music. The most important thing to understand is what it allows: It allows fully AI-generated music to continue being uploaded, and recommended to users, with no clear label

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It's an important story this, & deserves much more attention. Nathan Gill was an important ally of Nigel Farage, and one of the few former Ukip MEPs whom Farage allowed to stand for the new Brexit Party at the 2019 Euro election.

Adobe adding Nano Banana & Flux is an insult to the artists whose work has been used to train them without permission or payment

Oh god, it’s worse. This is Open Ai dictating to the studios they can “opt out” of OUTPUTS. This isn’t even about training. Open Ai thinks it’s all theirs to use for free. The hubris of these thieves is obscene. I can’t see them not getting sued for this, it’s that ridiculous.

This is the great Sarah Donaldson. She peerlessly led Guardian & Observer through entire Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal with nerves of steel. And now she’s leading our all-female team. She’s exhausted & FIERCE so please give her a follow. the nerve is coming soon!!

Sora straight up outputting the (copyrighted) Stranger Things soundtrack Music industry legal cavalry surely assembling

Hey Adobe - how do you justify ads that say your generative AI features “respect creators” and are “commercially-safe” when they use models like Flux? Is Flux trained only on images Black Forest Labs have licensed? Their founders were behind Stable Diffusion…

I increasingly think OpenAI is trying to destroy the concept of copyright through desensitization. Copyright is a huge threat to their profits. They are facing multiple massive copyright lawsuits. So they release Sora, knowing it can output copyrighted IP and knowing people