Ed Newton-Rex, the head of audio at Stability AI has resigned due to the company’s opinion that training generative AI models on copyrighted works is ‘fair use’. Newton-Rex disagrees with this stance as it can be used to create works that compete with the copyrighted works they are trained on, and he does not think it is fair to creators as they rely on copyright. This is an important discussion that has been highlighted due to the WGA strike this year. #CreativeRights #Copyright #GenerativeAI #FairUse
You can read more about this topic here: Decrypt: Former VP Leaves Stability AI Over Copyright Concerns
