Considered one of the music industry's most innovative figures, and a frequent imaginer of soulless, computer-dominated futures, Radiohead and The Smile's Thom Yorke today added his signature to a collective statement from the creative industries, levelled at AI companies. It asks them - in no uncertain terms - for them to stop training their models on their copyrighted work.
The statement, also signed by ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus, composer Max Richter and renowned actor Julianne Moore among 11,500 others reads as follows:
“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.”
