Back UK creative sector or gamble on AI, Getty Images boss tells Sunak

Rishi Sunak needs to decide whether he wants to back the UK's creative industries or gamble everything on an artificial intelligence boom, the chief executive of Getty Images has said. Craig Peters, who has led the image library since 2019, spoke out amid growing anger from the creative and media sector at the harvesting of their material for "training data" for AI companies. "When I look at the UK, probably about 10% of its GDP is sitting in the creative industries, whether that's movies, music, television. I think making that trade-off is risky. If I'm the UK, betting on AI, less than a quarter point of GDP within the UK today, significantly less than the creative industries, is a bit of a perplexing trade-off."