Paul McCartney, in a BBC interview broadcast yesterday, on the importance of protecting artists from AI companies
A small clip of this aired a couple of days ago, and I posted about it in LBN then: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143381045
The interview that snippet came from was part of Laura Kuenssberg's BBC show yesterday.
The discussion of AI's threat to British artists - the UK government is proposing ignoring current law on intellectual propert rights and just letting the AI companies use all artists' work without permission - starts at not quite 28 minutes in, and includes the very interesting info that the wildly inflated figure (£400 billion by 2030) the UK government is using to sell people on the alleged financial bonanza from AI companies being allowed to rip off all creators of intellectual property (1) came from a lobbying group for AI companies and (2) is for the imagined benefit to the entire world, not the UK.
That bit of info is followed by a couple of minutes of talk about other UK economic matters, and then the introduction to the interview with Sir Paul starts just after 31 minutes in and the interview runs to 40:40.
DUers in the UK can also watch the show here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0027dkp/sunday-with-laura-kuenssberg-boosting-the-economy-ai-and-paul-mccartney