Race on to establish globally recognised 'AI-free' logo
The backlash to the growing use of the tech has led to an explosion in attempts to come up with 'AI-Free' logo that could be used globally.
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"AI is creating significant disruption and competing definitions of what is 'human made' are confusing consumers."
— Dr Amna Khan , Academic
"AI is now so ubiquitous and so integrated into different platforms and services, that it's truly complicated to establish what 'AI free' means."
— Sasha Luccioni , Academic
"We support the AI industry and we think its an exciting time but we think that as a result of AI content there is an economic premium put on human-made content and we want to lean into that."
— Paul Yates , Executive
"She also described the intellectual property theft of books used to train AI models as 'creative larceny at scale'."
— Sarah Hall , Other
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A consumer expert from Manchester Metropolitan University.
CEO of The Mise en scène Company, supporting the push for human-made content.
An author who requested a 'Human Written' stamp for her novel.
An AI Research Scientist discussing the complexity of defining 'AI-free'.
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The backlash to the growing use of the tech has led to an explosion in attempts to come up with 'AI-Free' logo that could be used globally.
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