EGAIR - European Guild for AI Regulation

@egair.eu

This is the official Bluesky account of the European Guild for AI Regulation. Artists fighting for artists rights! ✊🏻🎨 Find more on www.egair.eu

If you want some good news moving into the holidays, Ed has you covered. Do you remember the UK consultation from Dec 2024- Feb 2025? It took then almost a year to read through the 11 500(!) respondents. 95%(!!!) Of respondents rejected the government's proposal of an unworkable "opt-out" scheme.

Ed Newton-Rex@ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Brutal (but fair) Guardian headline today Only 3% of respondents to the UK government’s consultation on AI & copyright supported their unfair plan to hand AI companies people’s work for free. 95% said AI companies should license training data. 🧵 1/2

OpenAI, one of the most prominent AI companies in the world, just released a model trained BLATANTLY on stolen IP. It's obvious that rights are being violated, and it's also obvious that existing enforcement is not preventing these violations: they press onward. The EU must enforce its rules

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI

Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

bloodinthemachine.com

“The tech companies say their training data is their trade secret. But my voice is not their trade secret”. This line stated by NAVA President Tim Friedlander while testifying for AB 412 perfectly encapsulates our stance. Our biometric data, our copywritten materials, and our voices belong to us.

Thank you so much, it warms the heart! It's quite easy to feel alone and confused these times, but there are so many bright sparks of change around... Art is a joy, a necessity and a journey and it ultimately befalls on us all to nurture others' bravery and prevent its ultimate commodification. :)

Now that more websites block AI crawlers, unscrupulous AI companies are now paying non-AI Browser Extension developers to add malware, that scrapes and sends website data to AI companies. They piggyback off of real users visiting websites to grab the site data.