Yolanda Díaz says that the artist’s statute will regulate AI in labor relations of creators: “You have to act”

The second vice president of the Government and Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, said Tuesday that the artist’s statute will regulate artificial intelligence (AI) in the labor relations of the culture sector. “We have to act,” he said during the ‘Pioneras’ colloquium organized by the Digital newspaper Article 14.

Díaz has reiterated that the “modernization” of the Royal Decree of 85, which is negotiating with the sector, goes through defending the culture of the use of AI, although in the case of the artist’s statute it will only have to do with labor relations. Even so, he has described the “very novel”, “important” and “beautiful” standard.

“I am passionate about artificial intelligence, I was a spokesman as a deputy in this matter. I have been arriving at the Ministry, not only advancing in the Rider Law, but I have made a commission of experts that accompany us in the use of artificial intelligence in the Labor relations, which is the debate centrally. Culture, “he said.

On the other hand, Díaz has repeated that the Statute will modernize the employment relationship of culture professionals and address child labor in social media and networks, establishing specific age and conditions.

“We are going to establish the limit that the Ministry of Youth and Childhood indicates, which cannot be less than two months,” said the participation of minors in audiovisual and advertising productions.

The Royal Decree project aims to update aspects such as working times, essay conditions and other singularities of the cultural sector, with the aim of modernizing and improving the working conditions of the professionals in the field.

Sources from the Minsiteio de Jobe specified that they regulate the figure of the artistic contract and include youtubers and Instagramers. This measure is a first “draft” that presented the cultural sector in February and had a period of 15 days to answer. It is also sought that cultural companies, whether from the audiovisual or theatrical world, are obliged to incorporate into the intimacy mediator to “guarantee that when it is said ‘action’, consent and the agreed in the script” are fulfilled and to avoid situations of harassment

Finally, Ministry of Labor and the Ministry of Culture have arranged in the Statute of the artist two additional provisions, for which they commit to open a table with the sector to establish professional transition programs and open a table to study the representative system