Williams questions companies on protecting artists and creators

Just one more question.

So as chair of the Committee on Cultural Affairs, I also want to look at this issue through the lens of New York City's artists and creative workers.

So what protection should exist when an artist's voice, likeness, performance, or creative work can be replicated?

by AI with their consent.

So how do we embrace useful applications without devaluing or displacing the artists and creative workers who make this economy possible?

So I will start, I guess.

I was going to let you off the hook and start with Mr.

Graham, who still has video technical difficulties.

I assure you, we have a whole team here working on this.

I can't wait to be back with you.

Yeah, this is very, very important.

I think, you know, personally, I think the risk of this is a bit more minimized when we just have a text model, but it's really important to be very sensitive about this issue.

I think while it's, you know, it's outside of my area of expertise as a technical safety researcher, I do think that this might be an avenue where regulation or otherwise might play a role in anthropic.

We are compliant with all laws there.

I share that, you know, personally as, you know, an artistic person and, you know, friend of many artists for this reason.

But yeah, we would love to engage on it further.

Mr.

Cahill?

Thank you very much, Deputy Speaker.

Meta takes creativity, copyright, IP rights very seriously, and our practices are consistent with law.

I also share the views of the rest of the witnesses just in relation to the leadership and the constructive voice that you are bringing to this conversation as well and that of your colleagues.

Miss Friend, and lastly, Miss Dwyer.

Yes, ma'am.

For us, it's always important to keep in mind that we design a lot of AI to be useful to creators.

So we have many, many different creative tools across our AI offerings that is designed to really

be something that creators can leverage.

So you see that everywhere from our tools to our YouTube platform as well.

That said, we also think that as part of sharing the benefit of AI with creators, it's important that they have control.

And so we have a service called Google Extended, where website owners can opt out of AI training on the web.

And we hope that this strikes the right balance between AI for creativity and creator control over their content.

So we believe that AI has a tremendous potential to enable creativity and innovation and allow small businesses or independent creators to compete.

That said, we also have partnerships with publishers, for example, like News Corp, The Guardian and Hearst that help people discover their work and their reporting.

And help them reach new audiences in addition to developing new products.

And we're willing to work with creators on a range of commercial ideas, including ways that their content can be integrated into our outputs.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

We will hear from Councilmember Krishnan, followed by Riley, followed by Lee.