A clash with the actor has echoes of the macho tech giants of the past, says Zoe Kleinman.
Last week Sony Music, the largest music publisher in the world, wrote to Google, Microsoft and OpenAI demanding to know whether any of its artists’ songs had been used to develop AI systems, saying they had no permission to do so. “Volunteer agreements essentially are just a means of firms marking their own homework,” says Andrew Straight, associate director of the Ada Lovelace Institute, an independent research organisation.
