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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lucy Knight

‘World champion of appropriation’ Grayson Perry says he isn’t bothered by AI using his work

A man in a brightly coloured outfit and pink hat stands smiling in front of a pink wall.
Perry with one of his artworks on display at his exhibition Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur, which includes ceramics, tapestries, furniture and collage. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

Grayson Perry has said he doesn’t “really mind” if his work is used to train AI models, adding that throughout his entire career he had been “ripping off” others.

Speaking at the Charleston literature festival, held on the grounds of the former home of the Bloomsbury Group artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, the artist jokingly referred to himself as “the world champion of cultural appropriation”.

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