Copyrighted music, literature and art must be protected by law that prevents them from being freely used to train artificial intelligence, MPs have warned. The creative industries have been among the most vocal in their opposition to how powerful AI models like ChatGPT are being developed to generate new work. By training them on huge amounts of existing media, including text and images, they can produce fresh content on demand that imitates what already exists. Concerns around their use by film and TV studios to write scripts or even replace actors are a key driver of ongoing Hollywood strikes, while...