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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Alex Hern UK technology editor

Back UK creative sector or gamble on AI, Getty Images boss tells Sunak

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In the US, the New York Times is suing OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, and Microsoft for using its news stories as part of training data. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

Rishi Sunak needs to decide whether he wants to back the UK’s creative industries or gamble everything on an artificial intelligence boom, the chief executive of Getty Images has said.

Craig Peters, who has led the image library since 2019, spoke out amid growing anger from the creative and media sector at the harvesting of their material for “training data” for AI companies. His company is suing an AI image generator in the UK and US for copyright infringement.

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