Every UK national newspaper has printed identical front pages. A thousand UK musicians have released a silent protest album: apnews.com/article/uk-m... Amazing list of publishers and creative associations: www.creativerightsinai.co.uk/members Join the fun, write to your MP today! - ThreadSky

kjcharleswriter.com • 3 days ago

Every UK national newspaper has printed identical front pages.

A thousand UK musicians have released a silent protest album: https://apnews.com/article/uk-musicians-protest-ai-copyright-law-dc80620c1c226a816048b87fb30309c4

Amazing list of publishers and creative associations: https://www.creativerightsinai.co.uk/members

Join the fun, write to your MP today!

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avmcewan.bsky.social•3 days ago

I wrote to my MP and got an auto reply and no follow up. Still worth doing though.

kjcharleswriter.com•3 days ago

My MP is still doing a "sorry I'm a baby MP, we're staffing my brand new office, I'll get back to you" routine. I'm in the most marginal seat in the country. He won by 15 votes. You'd think some effort would be in order, but apparently not.

I still emailed the twerp.

kjcharleswriter.com•3 days ago

There's an easy MP emailer here. Let them know that we don't actually want our creative sector robbed by the morally and economically bankrupt AI tech bubble! The 'consultation' ends today, so get your opinion in quick.

https://www.creativerightsinai.co.uk/new-page

mattneilhill.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thanks for sharing this! I took out the bit about creative people wanting to embrace AI, because neither I nor any writers and artists I know actually feel this way and simply wish it to stop existing. Otherwise a very helpful template.

kjcharleswriter.com•3 days ago

Yeah, I was quite narked by that line. Same as with the questions in the consultation that were along the lines of, "How can AI survive without you handing over your work for a pittance?" to which the only possible answer is "do I look like I care?"

mattneilhill.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yes! Very much a "let them perish" scenario. As if it's not hard enough creating in our spare time without having to waste time and energy on this bullshit!

kjcharleswriter.com•3 days ago

and there's still time to fill in the unbelievably difficult and annoying consultation, see for yourself how bad this is: https://bsky.app/profile/kjcharleswriter.com/post/3ldl37c4aqk2d

kjcharleswriter.com•3 days ago

I'm not sure why Labour decided that right now, the best fight to pick was with:

the press ✔️
the creators of people's entertainment✔️
a small army of highly articulate dweebs who like nothing more than an excuse not to be writing their book✔️
a sector that brings billions into the UK economy✔️

niall-mcauley.bsky.social•3 days ago

In a few years, if will come out that the AI companies bribed them with some insulting small contribution.

kjcharleswriter.com•3 days ago

I don't even think that. I think they're just suckers, like all the companies investing in the Six-Fingered Tulip Mania.

navalairhistory.com•3 days ago

It's partly that they've locked themselves on this path of atlanticism so they're desperate for anything to give them an in with the US in an area where the EU is taking a different approach. And I think they're honestly just seizing on this one weird trick in the hope it will generate growth

owh.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's both hilarious and disturbing that your post can equally apply to the Australian Labor Party.

mjaum.bsky.social•3 days ago

Butbutbut… the range of emperor’s new loyalty-testing clothing will be profitable any day now!

navalairhistory.com•3 days ago

Is it because they're fucking idiots who don't have the first clue what they're doing?

chronicleflask.katday.com•3 days ago

Hey.
On point 3 I would just like to say I’m not actually writing a book.

kjcharleswriter.com•3 days ago

Like so many authors

rayanselmo.bsky.social•3 days ago

Oh, that's easy - because:

They're idiots ✔️

tainkirrahe.bsky.social•3 days ago

it’s not like our creative industries make us billions every single year by using human talent, now lemme take a big sip of water and google the numbers,

kjcharleswriter.com•3 days ago

whereas last year OpenAI spent $9billion and made a $5billion loss, but hey, why not treat it as though it's more valuable!

tainkirrahe.bsky.social•3 days ago

I’ve had three clients go bust since September and all three were AI firms, it’s ridiculous

smokefurandstone.bsky.social•3 days ago

AI is just vague promises and massive losses. It comes with the same odds as betting on a tottering, bone-thin horse that drops dead at the starting gate. But some morons would still like to chop up the healthy horses and stuff their meat down the corpse's throat. Sorry, that got dark.

kjcharleswriter.com•3 days ago

oh well it's not like there's any massive global crises going on right now, so they might as well create a massively unnecessary shitstorm for themselves at home!

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