'The issue of copyright affects all of us'
‘If someone had told me I would become one of the people talking about AI, I would have gone "come off it'" but here we are. I am not anti-AI. It is here to stay and there are many brilliant things about it, and I absolutely will licence my work for AI because we need it to be trained by properly researched work. But the issue of copyright affects all of us...
I can't substantiate this, but I think people, particularly women, have been persuaded AI is very complicated. But scraping material without permission is theft - simple as that. There's a copyright law and some generative AI companies are not following it, and the government seems minded to let them get away with it. You don't need to understand AI to know that's wrong. It would be devastating for the creative industries. So, yes, copyright champ was not what I expected at this moment in my life but that's what I'm like: I can't shut up."
Kate Mosse, author of Labyrinth, Sepulchre, The Joubert Family Chronicles, The Linder Ghosts and The Taxidermist's Daughter and co-founder of the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction in Bookbrunch.
