From Rupert Murdoch to Thom Yorke: the growing backlash to AI

Thom Yorke is among 25,000 artists who have signed a statement warning that AI firms training programs on their works poses ‘major, unjust threat’ to their livelihoods. Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA

It is an unlikely alliance: the billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch and a panoply of leading artists including the Radiohead singer, Thom Yorke, the actors Kevin Bacon and Julianne Moore, and the author Kazuo Ishiguro.

This week, they began two very public fights with artificial intelligence companies, accusing them of using their intellectual property without permission to build the increasingly powerful and lucrative new technology.