How AI Steals Creative Work & What You Can Do About It 🎨

Discover how generative AI relies on unlicensed creative content and learn practical steps to protect your work from being exploited without permission.

How AI Steals Creative Work & What You Can Do About It 🎨
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190.8K views β€’ Mar 19, 2025
How AI Steals Creative Work & What You Can Do About It 🎨

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Generative AI is built on three key resources: people, compute and data. While companies invest heavily in the first two, they often use unlicensed creative work as training data without permission or payment β€” a practice that pits AI against the very creators it relies on. AI expert Ed Newton-Rex has a solution: licensing. He unpacks the dark side of today's AI models and outlines a plan to ensure that both AI companies and creators can thrive together. (Recorded at TEDAI San Francisco on October 22, 2024)

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