In 2008, scriptwriter Ed Bennett-Coles said he experienced a career “death moment”: he read an article about AI managing to write its first screenplay.
Nearly two decades later, he and friend Jamie Hartman, a songwriter, have developed a blockchain-based application they hope will empower writers, artists and others to own and protect their work.
“AI is coming in, swooping in and taking so many people’s jobs,” Hartman said. Their app, he said, responds “no… this is our work.”
“This is human, and we decide what it’s worth, because we own it.”
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