ABBA, Radiohead and The Cure sign letter of protest against AI – FBC News

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke is among the artists protesting their work being included in AI development. (EPA PHOTO)

Musicians from ABBA, Radiohead and The Cure have joined actors and authors in signing a letter of protest against the use of their work to build artificial intelligence tools.

Thousands of artists signed the letter released Tuesday — the latest public warning about AI tools that can spit out synthetic images, music and writings after being trained on massive amounts of human-made works.

“The unlicensed use of creative works to train generative AI is a significant and unfair threat to the livelihoods of the people behind these works and should not be allowed,” the petition says.

Among the signatories are Björn Ulvaeus of Swedish supergroup ABBA, Robert Smith and Thom Yorke of The Cure and their Radiohead bandmates. Writers such as Nobel-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro and actors Julianne Moore, Kevin Bacon and Rosario Dawson also signed the contract.

Bestselling novelist James Patterson signed Tuesday’s letter and another open letter last year organized by the Authors Guild, which later filed a lawsuit against AI companies that is still ongoing in New York federal court.