Gregory's ServerConcept artists hired lobbyists and filed classaction lawsuits against companies that generated “AI art” using their work as training data, without consent or compensation. Creatives refused to accept studio terms stipulating that their material could be used to train generativeAI systems that could then put them out of work or devalue their labour.
Given widening inequalities around the world, the climate catastrophe pushing more people into the margins, and the growing number of refugees, which is projected to rocket while tech billionaires amass more money than ever, the labour movement is only going to grow in importance during 2024. It has a vital role to play as it becomes one of the key ways in which the development of harmful AI systems can be curbed.