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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The demands in this recent speech by Writers' Guild president Jack Thorne, on 'Authorship in the Age of AI', are detached from reality Via writersguild.org.uk/jack-thorne-... "Thorne's speech was followed by a Q&A discussion with Baroness Beeban Kidron" because of course it was #genAI #techpolicy

outside, it doesn't seem as if there is an intention for this to lead to the transparency Baroness Kidron asked for. So let's be clear, we need mandatory data sets in which developers publish audited summaries of every input that has led to their outputs. We need watermarking for every text used.

(ii) The texts that are used need to generate a cost. Those with copyright need to be paid for their work being used. That's what these Court cases are arguing for. These costs need to be large enough that generating ideas through machines isn't necessarily cheaper than generating ideas through humans. How these particular costs are calculated is going to be immensely difficult

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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Note in particular that Writers' Guild president Jack Thorne apparently wants texts used for AI training to "generate a cost" even if they are not subject to copyright.

11:23 AM · Sep 22, 2026

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