Elton John brands Keir Starmer's government 'absolute losers' over AI plansSource: BBC
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00:00The danger is, for young artists, they haven't got the resources to keep checking or fight big tech
00:05if there is a lawsuit or anything like that.
00:08It's criminal, and I feel incredibly betrayed.
00:11The House of Lords did a vote, and it was more than two to one in our favour.
00:15The government just looked at it as if to say,
00:17well, the old people like me can afford it.
00:21That's not what we're complaining about.
00:23We're complaining about people's legacy,
00:26whether they're young songwriters, whether they're young playwrights, journalists, whatever.
00:32Some people aren't like me. They don't earn as much as I do.
00:35But when they're creative, and it comes from the human soul and not a machine,
00:40because a machine isn't capable of writing anything with any soul in it,
00:44if you've got to get rid of that,
00:46and you've got to rob young people of their legacy and their income,
00:50it's a criminal offence, I think.
00:52I think the government are just being absolute losers.
00:55I'm very angry about it.