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Title: Nick Clegg Says Asking Artists For Use Permission Would 'Kill' the AI
Industry

Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/26/2026...

As policy makers in the UK weigh how to regulate the AI industry, Nick Clegg,
former UK deputy prime minister and former Meta executive, claimed a push for
artist consent would "basically kill" the AI industry. From a report:
Speaking at an event promoting his new book, Clegg said the creative
community should have the right to opt out of having their work used to train
AI models. But he claimed it wasn't feasible to ask for consent before
ingesting their work first. "I think the creative community wants to go a
step further," Clegg said according to The Times. "Quite a lot of voices say,
'You can only train on my content, [if you] first ask.' And I have to say
that strikes me as somewhat implausible because these systems train on vast
amounts of data." "I just don't know how you go around, asking everyone
first. I just don't see how that would work," Clegg said. "And by the way if
you did it in Britain and no one else did it, you would basically kill the AI
industry in this country overnight."

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