British novelists criticise government over AI ‘theft’

Richard Osman and Kate Mosse say plan to mine artistic works for data would destroy creative fields

Kate Mosse and Richard Osman have hit back at Labour's plan to give artificial intelligence companies broad freedoms to mine artistic works for data, saying it could destroy growth in creative fields and amount to theft.

The best-selling novellists spoke out after Keir Starmer a national drive to make the UK one of the great AI superpowers" and endorsed a 50-point action plan that included changes to how technology firms can use copyrighted text and data to train their models.