How AI models steal creative work — and what to do about it | Ed Newton-Rex

Generative AI is built on three key resources: people, compute and data.

While companies invest heavily in the first two, they often use unlicensed creative work as training data without permission or payment — a practice that pits AI against the very creators it relies on.

AI expert Ed Newton-Rex has a solution: licensing.

He unpacks the dark side of today's AI models and outlines a plan to ensure that both AI companies and creators can thrive together.