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10/22/2024 | News release | Archived content

BPI supports AI Training Statement

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BPI supports AI Training Statement

22.10.24

The statement on AI training can be found and signed here: https://www.aitrainingstatement.org/

The statement on AI training can be found and signed here: https://www.aitrainingstatement.org/

BPI, representing the UK's recorded music industry, has joined tens of thousands of creatives, creative and rights-holder organisations around the world in support of the Statement on AI Training:

"The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted."

The statement has been supported by over 32,000 signatories, including multi-platinum selling musicians, Nobel Prize-winning authors, and Oscar-winning actors and composers.

Signatories include Thom Yorke (Radiohead), Björn Ulvaeus (ABBA), Roger Daltrey (The Who), Robert Smith (The Cure), Max Richter and Sir John Rutter.

It comes at a critical time for creators and rights-holders in the UK and beyond, as concerns mount that the UK government is considering introducing a text and data mining (TDM) copyright exception which would allow AI companies to train their models on artists' works without permission.
More information on the statement, including the latest list of signatories, can be found here.