Meeting yesterday at the Palais d’Iéna under the aegis of the Société des Gens de Lettre, the creative sector called on the French government to support them on the issue of generative AI. Emmanuel Macron doesn’t seem inclined to heed their call: his government is even said to be forming a blocking minority to prevent the vote on the European AI regulation, which provides guarantees for copyright holders. The French government’s support for the creative sector is a matter of great concern. No, the world and humanity are not going to be destroyed by AI, but culture as we envisage it today could be, for want of adaptation of the law: this is how we might sum up the comments of many speakers at the Forum organized yesterday by the Société des Gens de Lettre at the Conseil économique, social, et environnemental, and whose theme was « les créateurs face à l’intelligence artificielle ». »We must avoid adhering to the existential risk, »…
