Sir Kazuo Ishiguro revealed Charles had told him it was ‘important to keep battling’.<\/p>\n
The King’s intervention comes after warnings tech giants are looting the work of content creators to train their AI services.<\/p>\n
Creatives warn that US-based firms are using online text, images and music to feed their AI models and do not credit those who created it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Daily Mail is campaigning for authors, publishers and musicians to be paid a fair price for their work and to have their copyright respected.<\/p>\n
Japanese-born Sir Kazuo said of his conversation with the King: ‘This is the third time he’s presented me with something and he alluded to the fact that we keep doing this.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘He asked me about my writing and he did actually raise the question about AI and the threat to the creative people of AI.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘He said he thought it was quite important to keep battling on that front.’<\/p>\n
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King Charles III made Sir Kazuo Ishiguro a companion of honour at Windsor Castle on Monday<\/p>\n
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The Japanese-born British author (pictured with his medal following his appointment) has revealed his books have been ‘raided’ to train artificial intelligence models<\/p>\n
The Nobel prize-winning writer, 70, who moved to the UK as a child, was made a Companion of Honour for services to literature at yesterday’s event at Windsor Castle.<\/p>\n
He is one of a number of authors, musicians and artists who signed an open letter protesting against the ‘unlicensed use’ of creative works for training AI systems last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He said it posed a ‘major, unjust threat’ to artists’ livelihoods and that using content without credit amounted to ‘theft’.<\/p>\n
Sir Kazuo said: ‘I don’t object necessarily to using creative work in the training of AI, it’s the framework in which it’s done.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘I think many of us are concerned about the fact that the copyrights were completely infringed.<\/p>\n
‘Our work was being taken \u2013 all my books have been taken to train AI \u2013 but if the copyrights can be respected then it can be used in a way that, say, a traditional researcher would use somebody else’s book.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘Just because it’s AI, it shouldn’t be an excuse to just raid people’s intellectual property.’<\/p>\n
The author did, however, say he was ‘quite optimistic’ about the ‘positive benefits’ of AI, saying there were ‘great things’ that could come from it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He added: ‘But as a society we have to figure out how to do it in a controlled way so that it benefits people.’<\/p>\n
He spoke as the House of Lords communications and digital committee began looking into the issue of AI and copyright.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Asked if using other people’s work was not just taking inspiration from them, Tom Kiehl, chief executive of UK Music, said: ‘I don’t think it is inspiration. This is pure theft.<\/p>\n
‘Copyright protects the right of a copy and when you’re having systems trained on material, you’re ripping off the copy.’<\/p>\n
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