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Claims that AI will make it harder for working class talent to succeed in the creative industries miss the point – the arts are inherently unequal, and not because of technology, says Paul Ormerod

The cultural and creative industries have been very much in the news over the past week

A report fronted by the crossbench peer Baroness Kidron warns of the threat to the sector from AI.

It does not so much as warn that it screams from the rooftops that the jobs of 2.4m people in these sectors are already at risk from the spread of AI.

The sector as defined in this report is a broad one, embracing the arts, media, design, publishing and entertainment worlds.

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The problem is that large tech companies have the ability to scrape the work of composers, artists and writers and use the results to generate offers........

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