More than a thousand artists recorded mere silence as a protest – with Kate Bush, Damon Albarn and other world stars

Over a thousand British Artist is involved Is This What We Want album, which was released on Tuesday, February 25, as a protest for the planned changes to British artificial intelligence legislation.

The government has proposed on the country’s legislation changewhich would allow artificial intelligence companies to use the content published on the Internet as a training material for their artificial intelligence models, unless the copyright holders expressly prohibit such use.

According to the BBC Artists are opposed to the proposal on the grounds that it would be virtually impossible for an individual artist to announce the ban on use of their own production to all artificial intelligence companies. Similarly, the entire internet control of the use of one’s own production is considered impossible.

1 000 UK Artists -a protest plate published under the name of the artist into an artist group There are numerous most successful artists working in Britain. For example, a movie composer is included Hans Zimmer mixed Damon Albarn, Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Cat StevensJamiroquai, Imogen Heap, Annie LennoxThe Clash, Pet Shop Boys and many other rock and pop artists.

The artists and institutions of classical music include composers, for example John Rutter and Rachel Portman sekä The King’s Singers, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra ja Royal Albert Hall.

The album’s 12-minute pieces of about four minutes include field recordings of empty recording studios and performances. The names of the songs consist of the words “The British Government must not Legalisus Music to Benefit AI Companies”, or “Britain’s government should not legalize the stealing of music for artificial intelligence”.

Project has organized the composer Ed Newton-Rexwho has worked for artificial intelligence and sought to promote rights of copyright holders in training artificial intelligence.

“The government’s proposal would donate the life work of our country musicians to artificial intelligence companies for free and allow them to take the musicians’ livelihood by using their own work,” Newton-Rex said According to Classic FM.

Artists have expressed protests for the use of artificial intelligence in other contexts. For example Elton JohnThe Beatles Paul McCartney or queen Brian May are not involved in just published Is This What We Want on the album, they have all recently warned about the changes in British planned artificial intelligence laws. Thursday of the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer Indeed, he said he would take into account the concerns of the musicians before taking the legal project forward, The Independent kertoo.