Current Affairs bans AI-generated content in new union contract
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US magazine Current Affairs has passed an anti-AI policy in its new union contract, described in reports as one of the strictest in publishing, banning any AI-generated text and illustration from its pages. The policy statement frames the ban around damage to creative labor: it says AI produces content at near-zero cost, that creative industries lost more than 200,000 jobs in four years, and that model training used artists' work taken at scale. The reported step is that the ban is now written into the new union contract.
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- Hacker News front pageWhy We're Banning AI
美国杂志 Current Affairs 在新工会合同中通过了出版业最严格的反 AI 政策之一，禁止刊发任何 AI 生成的文字与插画，以对抗媒体的“slopification”。文章指出，AI 正以近乎零成本产出内容，导致创意产业四年内流失超 20 万个岗位，而训练这些模型所用的正是艺术家被大规模盗用的作品。
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