🚨CREATOR’S CHAMPION Baroness Kidron has added her voice to those calling on the UK government to make clear its £500 million ($680 million, €580 million) AI investment fund won’t invest in start-ups that violate creators’ copyright. All the week's news: grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/pressure-g...

We need fewer Sam Altman’s and more Ben Zhao’s…although even just one Ben Zhao is amazing! @glovelace.bsky.social

CREATORS’ HERO Ben Zhao unveiled a new venture this week as part of his mission to preserve human-made media in the era of gen AI. That, and all the week's developments in our ongoing coverage of gen AI's impacts on human-made media, in Charting Gen AI. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

CREATORS’ HERO Ben Zhao unveiled a new venture this week as part of his mission to preserve human-made media in the era of gen AI. That, and all the week's developments in our ongoing coverage of gen AI's impacts on human-made media, in Charting Gen AI. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

🚨JOURNALISTS ARE campaigning to save an online institution caught in the crossfire between online publishers and AI developers. Find out why the Wayback Machine is imperilled as humanity's only record of online discourse, plus other key developments. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/battle-bet...

A BILL THAT seeks to turn the tables in the transparency battle between rightsholders and AI developers has cleared a crucially important legislative hurdle. The bill change the way lawmakers address transparency protections in jurisdictions globally. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/attempt-to...

🚨A COALITION of creator groups representing more than half a million creative workers has repeated its demand that the UK government adopt its five-point regulatory framework for AI — and “throw us a lifeline”. Full report on the #CreatorsEmergencySummit grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/creator-gr...

🚨WHAT THE WORLD needs now ... is more people like Ben Zhao. The renowned computer science professor tells me why he's firmly on the side of creators, pioneering AI-defeating tools that protect their artworks from mimicry. #CreatorsEmergencySummit

🚨WHAT THE WORLD needs now ... is more people like Ben Zhao. The renowned computer science professor tells me why he's firmly on the side of creators, pioneering AI-defeating tools that protect their artworks from mimicry. #CreatorsEmergencySummit

🚨DONALD TRUMP has partially delivered on his promise to Big Tech over the use of rightsholders’ content to train AI models without permission or payment. Find out how, and get all the week's news as creatives prepare to take on Big Tech. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/trump-admi...

🚨IT WAS THE generative video app that sent shockwaves through Hollywood and further raised the stakes in OpenAI’s gamble on AI and copyright. Last night the ChatGPT owner unexpectedly announced that Sora was being consigned to the scrapheap. Find out why! grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/openai-scr...

CREATORS’ CHAMPION Baroness Kidron is backing creative industry leaders as they meet to decide their next steps after the UK government’s failure to firmly rule out a future copyright exception in favour of AI developers. Find out how: grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/creators-c...

🚨CREATOR GROUPS are set to attend an emergency meeting to decide their next steps after the UK government’s statement on AI and copyright fell short of their demands. The Creators Emergency Summit is being convened by Charting Gen AI and Addleshaw Goddard. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/emergency-...

🚨WHAT A BUNCH of zeros. Might that change next week when the UK government finally explains its stance on AI and copyright? Full story on what we can expect in Charting Gen AI's Weekly Newsletter. Do subscribe! grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/long-await...

My latest column for TVBEurope asks if gen AI is ready for primetime. Spoiler alert: no, and it never will be. “Increasingly the most important decision among discerning creative teams will not be where to use generative AI in a project, but whether to use it at all.” issuu.com/docs/ecd6971...

🚨NEARLY TEN THOUSAND authors have published an empty book to protest against the theft of their copyrighted works by AI companies. Charting Gen AI has the full story plus our comment on why the initiative is so effective. Do subscribe! #DontStealThisBook grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/ten-thousa...

🚨THE UK’S UPPER HOUSE has called on the Keir Starmer administration to follow Australia’s lead in ruling out a new copyright exception that would allow hi-techs to train their AI models on rightsholders’ works without consent or compensation. Full story and the week's developments: Charting Gen AI

Really excellent interview with tech journalist Graham Lovelace about the current situation regarding copyright law and generative AI’s illegal scraping of published books — posted by @alcs.co.uk www.alcs.co.uk/news/the-ai-...

🚨MICROSOFT DELETED a blog post that encouraged developers to use pirated copies of Harry Potter books to generate “new AI-driven” fan fiction “sure to delight Potterheads”. The incident exposes the attitude towards copyright within Microsoft’s culture. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/microsoft-...

🚨CHINESE TECH giant ByteDance parked its tanks on the Hollywood skyline this week. We comment on why it’s wrong to frame its intellectual property violation as ‘America good, China bad’ in Charting Gen AI's jam-packed Weekly Newsletter: grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/why-its-wr...

🚨CHINESE TECH giant ByteDance parked its tanks on the Hollywood skyline this week. We comment on why it’s wrong to frame its intellectual property violation as ‘America good, China bad’ in Charting Gen AI's jam-packed Weekly Newsletter: grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/why-its-wr...

🚨NETFLIX’S DECISION to use generative AI to disguise interviewees in a highly sensitive documentary has prompted a call for a TV industry debate on the use of the technology. Charting Gen AI has the full story and all the week's main stories. Do subscribe! grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/netflixs-u...

I just signed a petition calling for an urgent investigation into Peter Mandelson's dealings with Palantir. Did he use his position as UK Ambassador to benefit the US spy tech firm? Sign now: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ma...

"This proves what many have long suspected — that even the CEOs of the largest AI companies know their mass exploitation of copyrighted works is unfair and unsustainable.” @ednewtonrex.bsky.social

🚨ANTHROPIC CEO Dario Amodei once supported the idea that publishers and creators should be paid when their works are used to train AI models, according to an unsealed court document unearthed by Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social. That, and more here: grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/anthropic-...

🚨THE UK’S DATA watchdog has been accused of dragging its heels in launching an investigation into the Grok sexualised deepfake scandal. Full story and what we think UK tech secretary Liz Kendall should do now: grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/online-saf...

🚨ONLINE PUBLISHERS are inching closer to victory in their battle to control how Google scrapes their content for its generative search products. Find out how, and catch up with the week's main stories in Charting Gen AI's Weekly Newsletter. Do subscribe! grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/publishers...

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Baroness Kidron h/t @glovelace.bsky.social

🚨A COALITION of creator groups is today calling on the UK government to implement immediate measures aimed at protecting the nation’s creative sector, or risk losing it. Charting Gen AI has the full story and comment. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/creator-gr...

🚨CONTROVERSY SURROUNDS an online training course on AI and intellectual property offered by the UK government as part of a flagship AI initiative. We’ve the full ‘you couldn’t make it up’ story. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

🚨CONTROVERSY SURROUNDS an online training course on AI and intellectual property offered by the UK government as part of a flagship AI initiative. We’ve the full ‘you couldn’t make it up’ story. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

🚨GOOD NEWS for creators: ‘AI godfather’ Yann LeCun @yann-lecun.bsky.social says his alternative approach to machines capable of matching or exceeding human-level intelligence won't need to be trained on copyrighted content. Full story and pithy analysis: grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/ai-godfath...

🚨ELON MUSK’S AI chatbot Grok generated and shared over 3 million sexualised images of women and children in the 11 days before its editing feature was restricted, a study estimated this week. Full story and the week’s big developments: grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/musks-sexu...

‘Responsibility for the way Grok behaves rests squarely with xAI and ultimately with Musk. He’s shown, once again, he cannot be trusted with one of mankind’s most powerful and dangerous inventions. Sanctions must follow. And fast.’ grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/musk-retre...

🚨UK PRIME MINISTER Sir Keir Starmer has thrown down the gauntlet to Elon Musk saying he "will not stand" for the "absolutely disgusting and shameful” actions of his social media platform X. Full story and poll on whether Ofcom should ban X in the UK👇 grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/if-x-cant-...

🚨ELON MUSK’S social network X provoked international outrage this week as its AI chatbot Grok flooded the platform with non-consensual sexualised images of women and minors. What might happen next? See Charting Gen AI's Weekly Newsletter. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/uk-says-xs...

Thinking about the Minneapolis video and the Trump-Noem false narrative that followed soon afterwards. Orwell foretold it in 1984. "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." Americans: read it, while you can.

🚨ON THE EVE of a new year Charting Gen AI picks five stories from 2025 that are likely to shape the course of events during 2026. Our selection straddles regulation, transparency, licensing, chatbot safety and copyright lawsuits. Happy New Year everyone!🥂 grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/five-stori...

🚨SIX AUTHORS including John Carreyrou, investigative reporter at The New York Times, are taking on the might of America’s AI establishment, accusing Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI and Perplexity of using pirated copies of their books to train LLMs. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/pulitzer-p...

🚨CREATOR GROUPS and their allies are calling on the UK government to make its intentions on AI and copyright clear, and drop its support for a copyright exception in favour of Big Tech. That story all the week’s key developments in Charting Gen AI. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/pressure-g...

Thrilled to appear on BBC News’ AI Decoded to talk about AI and copyright. Find out why I believe the UK government's preferred option in a consultation on the future of copyright in the era of generative AI only received the support of 3% of respondents. Link to show: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

🚨HUNDREDS OF ICONIC Disney characters are being licensed to Sora in a breakthrough deal struck today with the short-form video platform’s owner, OpenAI. Full story and pithy analysis in Charting Gen AI's Quick Take. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/disney-str...

Using Gen AI can really be brand damaging - as @glovelace.bsky.social points out in this piece at @auworks.bsky.social au-works.com/content-by-n...

THE UK COULD be heading for a Hollywood 2023-style strike over actors’ AI protections. We have the full inside story in Charting Gen AI's Weekly Newsletter. Do subscribe! grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/performers...

🚨Musk's latest model fails on the simplest of challenges, including maps, labelled diagrams, left-handed writers, clocks, glasses brimming with water, and darts! We took Grok 4.1 for a spin, and found it map-tacularly wrong! grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/lets-have-...

🚨PRIVACY GROUPS, civil society organisations and rights campaigners are urging the European Commission to think again on plans to pause full implementation of Europe’s landmark AI legislation and dilute other digital laws. Full story and weekly round-up: grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/campaigner...

🚨CREATORS ARE celebrating after a court in Germany ruled that ChatGPT violates European copyright laws by reproducing lyrics used to train OpenAI’s generative models. Charting Gen AI has the full story with pithy analysis. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/music-righ...

🚨GETTY IMAGES has broadly lost a landmark legal battle against Stability AI in a case that has major ramifications for UK creators seeking to enforce copyright over AI models trained overseas. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/blow-for-u...

🚨CHARACTER.AI HAS banned under-18s access to chatbots that have been implicated in the deaths by suicide of US teens. The move has been welcomed by the lawyer calling for AI developers to be made more accountable, but she says more needs to be done. grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/charactera...

🚨CREATOR GROUPS in Australia are celebrating after the government ruled out a copyright exception that would have allowed AI developers to train their generative models on creative content without the consent of rightsholders. Full story: grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/creators-c...