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Ed Newton-Rex

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Ed Newton-Rex

@ednewtonrex

CEO of @fairlytrained / Composer. Involuntary training data provider.

London, England

Joined August 2009

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Ed Newton-Rex
@ednewtonrex
Mar 10
Today, we're publishing Don't Steal This Book - a (mostly) empty book from almost 10,000 authors, protesting the theft of their work by AI companies. The UK government is considering upending copyright law to benefit AI companies. Don’t Steal This Book urges them not to. Apart
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Ed Newton-Rex
@ednewtonrex
Mar 27, 2025
The entire AI Studio Ghibli thing is awful. But by far the worst part is the people *actively celebrating* that this would sadden/anger Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli's creator. Silicon Valley has never been in a worse place. It's sickening to watch the artist-hate spread.
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Ed Newton-Rex
@ednewtonrex
Mar 27, 2025
Feels like there's a good chance Studio Ghibli sues OpenAI. Their stills are presumably in the training data against their wishes, and OpenAI execs are actively promoting + encouraging the trend of users generating in their style.
Greg Brockman
@gdb
Mar 26, 2025
ChatGPT image generation enables so much creativity!
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Ed Newton-Rex
@ednewtonrex
Jul 31, 2025
SoundCloud recently changed their terms in a way that would allow them to train generative AI models on my (and everyone else’s) music. They tried to do some PR damage control, but the terms still allow this today.
SoundCloud
@SoundCloud
Jul 31, 2025
share a piece of soundcloud lore about yourself
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Ed Newton-Rex
@ednewtonrex
Mar 26, 2025
We are in the middle of the biggest art heist in history. And, despite widespread protests from creators, huge numbers of people are cheering it on.
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Ed Newton-Rex
@ednewtonrex
Oct 1, 2025
Something quite funny about OpenAI employees thinking they have invented the concept of social media that incentivizes creation and sharing
Michael Chang
@mmmbchang
Sep 30, 2025
This is a new kind of social media - one that incentivizes creation and sharing, not simply just consumption. Social is a crucial component to creativity: seeing others' creations inspires your own. Eventually I expect we will the emergence of something like Github for media
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Ed Newton-Rex
@ednewtonrex
Oct 23, 2025
Absolutely brilliant detail from the new Reddit AI copyright lawsuit vs. Perplexity. They set a trap for Perplexity - a test post only crawlable by Google, existing nowhere else on the internet. Within hours, it was on Perplexity 😳 nytimes.com/2025/10/22/tec…
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Ed Newton-Rex
@ednewtonrex
Oct 18, 2025
We will hear this more and more. The AI industry is in total denial about the way most people feel about AI.
DiscussingFilm
@DiscussingFilm
Oct 18, 2025
“Fuck AI” — Guillermo del Toro
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Ed Newton-Rex
@ednewtonrex
Apr 16, 2025
Send this to anyone who tells you it's just big corporations that benefit from copyright
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Ed Newton-Rex
@ednewtonrex
Nov 15, 2023
I’ve resigned from my role leading the Audio team at Stability AI, because I don’t agree with the company’s opinion that training generative AI models on copyrighted works is ‘fair use’. First off, I want to say that there are lots of people at Stability who are deeply
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Ed Newton-Rex
@ednewtonrex
Feb 15, 2024
OpenAI just released a model that can generate 1-minute videos. You simply cannot argue that these models don't / won't compete with the content they're trained on, and the human creators behind that content. What is the model trained on? Did the training data providers consent
OpenAI
@OpenAI
Feb 15, 2024
Introducing Sora, our text-to-video model. Sora can create videos of up to 60 seconds featuring highly detailed scenes, complex camera motion, and multiple characters with vibrant emotions. openai.com/sora Prompt: “Beautiful, snowy
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Ed Newton-Rex
@ednewtonrex
Feb 15, 2024
Let's call generative AI that's trained on people's work without permission what it is: copyright laundering.
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Ed Newton-Rex
@ednewtonrex
Oct 22, 2024
Today we’re publishing a statement on AI training, signed by 10,000+ creators already: “The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.” Signatories include
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Ed Newton-Rex
@ednewtonrex
Oct 22, 2025
This is absolutely sickening
Cristina Criddle
@CristinaCriddle
Oct 22, 2025
OpenAI has sent a legal request to the family of Adam Raine, the 16yo who died by suicide following lengthy chats with ChatGPT, asking for a full attendee list to his memorial, as well as photos taken or eulogies given. His lawyers told the FT this was "intentional harassment"
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