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Joy Chiang’s Instagram traces every step of an artistic journey that’s taken her creative vision from paints to pixels.
First, there’s her earliest work: waves of colour and abstract fluid forms pouring from brush to large-scale canvasses. More recently, her trademark style has expanded into the digital realm, with animated 3D creations using cutting-edge AI tools.
It’s been a journey that’s seen Chiang build an enthusiastic audience, with major exhibitions and commissions. And it’s taken the artist from her Melbourne home to Los Angeles, as an invited guest of last month’s Adobe MAX, a global creativity conference, where creators gather to explore the latest in digital technology.
The creative industries are fighting back against UK government proposals to let artificial intelligence companies use copyright-protected work without permission.
The latest protest is a silent album co-written by more than 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush, and follows a statement signed by 48,000 creatives including Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus in which they warned of a “major, unjust threat” to artists’ livelihoods.
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Kate Bush, New Order, & Damon Albarn Among 1,000 UK Artists Protesting Government’s AI Stance With A Silent Album
Last week, the UK government proposed a new policy that would allow tech companies to use copyrighted works to train their artificial intelligence algorithms. Under the proposal, artists and companies could opt out of having their material used for AI, but it would otherwise give the companies unfettered access to people’s creative work without having to license anything. The proposal has incited widespread anger in the UK’s arts communities, and now a team of 1,000 British musicians has released a silent protest album called Is This What We Want?
Writers, publishers, musicians, photographers, movie producers and newspapers have rejected the Labour government’s plan to create a copyright exemption to help artificial intelligence companies train their algorithms.
In a joint statement, bodies representing thousands of creatives dismissed the proposal made by ministers on Tuesday that would allow companies such as Open AI, Google and Meta to train their AI systems on published works unless their owners actively opt out.
