{"id":176136,"date":"2023-11-16T09:22:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T15:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/vp-of-uks-top-generative-ai-firm-resigns-over-fair-use-controversy"},"modified":"2023-11-16T09:22:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T15:22:48","slug":"vp-of-uks-top-generative-ai-firm-resigns-over-fair-use-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/vp-of-uks-top-generative-ai-firm-resigns-over-fair-use-controversy","title":{"rendered":"VP of UK\u2019s top generative AI firm resigns over \u2018fair use\u2019 controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/vp-of-uks-top-generative-ai-firm-resigns-over-fair-use-controversy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An executive at one of generative AI\u2019s leading companies has quit over the <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/topic\/startups\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">startup\u2019s<\/a> controversial use of copyrighted content.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Newton-Rex had been VP of audio at Stability <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/topic\/artificial-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AI<\/a>, which produces the popular image-generator Stability Diffusion, but resigned due to the firm\u2019s treatment of creators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve resigned from my role leading the Audio team at Stability AI, because I don\u2019t agree with the company\u2019s opinion that training generative AI models on copyrighted works is \u2018fair use\u2019,\u201d Newton-Rex announced Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ednewtonrex\/status\/1724902327151452486?t=qdnlDDnZYtWWorDM-qb3Ng&s=03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An executive at one of generative AI\u2019s leading companies has quit over the startup\u2019s controversial use of copyrighted content. Ed Newton-Rex had been VP of audio at Stability AI, which produces the popular image-generator Stability Diffusion, but resigned due to the firm\u2019s treatment of creators. \u201cI\u2019ve resigned from my role leading the Audio team at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":705,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}