{"id":46858,"date":"2026-03-19T09:50:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=46858"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:50:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:50:58","slug":"how-artists-are-fighting-back-against-ai-in-a-digital-wild-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/46858","title":{"rendered":"How artists are fighting back against AI in a \u2018digital Wild West\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How artists are fighting back against AI in a \u2018digital Wild West\u2019\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gbnqCgjtycM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, the Government made a major U-turn, scrapping plans to give AI firms a &#8216;free pass&#8217; to use the work of authors, musicians, and filmmakers without consent. Ministers say they\u2019ve listened to the creative sector. But for those whose life&#8217;s work is already inside the machine, this is a hollow victory. They warn of a &#8216;digital Wild West&#8217; where it\u2019s not clear whether their material has already been used by AI firms. Our Technology and Science Editor, Siobhan Kennedy reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Government made a major U-turn, scrapping plans to give AI firms a &#8216;free pass&#8217; to use the work of authors, musicians, and filmmakers without consent. Ministers say they\u2019ve listened to the creative sector. But for those whose life&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/46858\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1854],"class_list":["post-46858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","tag-ai"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46859,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46858\/revisions\/46859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}