Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa call on the UK to pass AI copyright transparency law

is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. Last week, Paul McCartney, Dua Lipa, Ian McKellen, Elton John, and hundreds of others in the UK creative industry signed an open letter backing an effort to force AI firms to reveal the copyrighted works used to train their models. They support an amendment to the UK’s Data (Use and Access) Bill proposed by letter organizer Beeban Kidron, adding the requirement, which the UK government has opposed. The British House of Lords passed the amendment yesterday, 272 to 125, reports The Guardian, and now it’s going back to the House of Commons, where the amendment could be removed again. The British government says the fight over the amendment “is holding back both the creative and tech sectors and needs to be resolved by new legislation,” writes The Guardian. From the letter: We will lose an immense growth opportunity if we give our work away at the ... Read full article.