Don't know if this is the right place to say it, but couldn't see another spot to respond to the AI update… with some explanatory info about the CRA (Creators Rights Alliance) as it's not mentioned in the piece you linked to Nika. So the website page showing the CRA's membership is at https://www.creatorsrightsalliance.org/membership – at the bottom are the logos of all the member organisations, ie it's made up of, by my count, 23 representative unions and associations, not individual creators (tho the bodies involved total about 500,000 individual members). But all the more oomph to it and if your organisation isn't on the list it's worth encouraging them to join as not too pricey (£600 a year per org.) and… boy, do individual/freelance creators need lobbying power to oppose the media corporations who are quite diligent in pursuit of bullying us out of our rights (contractually) and then exploiting them for their own benefit, often without the smallest widow's mite of a cut to the people who made what they're selling (AI being a whole new area ripe for them to pillage). Diverse crowd who are already members include our own NUJ (Nat Uion Of Journos), the Music Managers Forum, the Royal Photographic Society, the Societies of authors' and artists' agents, ALCS and DACS (collecting societies), Equity (actors), and the Assoc Of Illustrators (+ etc). All the best, Phil
DM from Fahim Pour, Elevista.ai (interesting startup - community-led growth tools for writers).
Hey Nika, just read your piece on Substack about big AI companies using creators' data and content to train their model for free and why that should be stopped by the likes of Prorata.ai. Couldn't agree more in principle, but do you think it's practical?
Internet is built on the basis of free data in return for traffic, like how Google or Youtube search work. Same goes for generative search experiences like Perplexity and the way they references sources.
I feel like if creators were to charge for their data, big companies may start charging them for giving their content visibility and traffic if you know what I mean...
"It might be the end of the free internet as we know it. If that's the case it will create social classes on the web, those who pay for quality content and get paid for their contributions vs. those who give away their data for average content.
On the up side, AI will revolutionise healthcare, I have no doubt, it's actually underway from what I read. So a newsletter on that would have a highly engaged audience of its own."
Don't know if this is the right place to say it, but couldn't see another spot to respond to the AI update… with some explanatory info about the CRA (Creators Rights Alliance) as it's not mentioned in the piece you linked to Nika. So the website page showing the CRA's membership is at https://www.creatorsrightsalliance.org/membership – at the bottom are the logos of all the member organisations, ie it's made up of, by my count, 23 representative unions and associations, not individual creators (tho the bodies involved total about 500,000 individual members). But all the more oomph to it and if your organisation isn't on the list it's worth encouraging them to join as not too pricey (£600 a year per org.) and… boy, do individual/freelance creators need lobbying power to oppose the media corporations who are quite diligent in pursuit of bullying us out of our rights (contractually) and then exploiting them for their own benefit, often without the smallest widow's mite of a cut to the people who made what they're selling (AI being a whole new area ripe for them to pillage). Diverse crowd who are already members include our own NUJ (Nat Uion Of Journos), the Music Managers Forum, the Royal Photographic Society, the Societies of authors' and artists' agents, ALCS and DACS (collecting societies), Equity (actors), and the Assoc Of Illustrators (+ etc). All the best, Phil
DM from Fahim Pour, Elevista.ai (interesting startup - community-led growth tools for writers).
Hey Nika, just read your piece on Substack about big AI companies using creators' data and content to train their model for free and why that should be stopped by the likes of Prorata.ai. Couldn't agree more in principle, but do you think it's practical?
Internet is built on the basis of free data in return for traffic, like how Google or Youtube search work. Same goes for generative search experiences like Perplexity and the way they references sources.
I feel like if creators were to charge for their data, big companies may start charging them for giving their content visibility and traffic if you know what I mean...
Where do you think we're heading?
"It might be the end of the free internet as we know it. If that's the case it will create social classes on the web, those who pay for quality content and get paid for their contributions vs. those who give away their data for average content.
On the up side, AI will revolutionise healthcare, I have no doubt, it's actually underway from what I read. So a newsletter on that would have a highly engaged audience of its own."