#AI #GenerativeAI #Udemy: "Stegs told 404 Media that she has had a course on the platform for eight years, and that she ended up finding out about the program with an email that said “You’re IN, Welcome to the GEN AI program.”
“This was the first I heard of it and I immediately logged in to the creator dashboard to turn it off,” she said. “The settings were buried away deep somewhere in my account. And then when i finally found it, the option to remove my consent from the program was greyed out. I never consented to the program.”
“I would like to remove my course from the platform but as the course was uploaded by my co-creator I can't do that part,” she added. “It's just unbelievable the theft of intellectual property that was never agreed to or communicated in a reasonable manner. It should be illegal. And on top of this, I should be allowed to withdraw consent at any time given it is MY content.”
Several other instructors have also said they intend to leave the platform entirely over the generative AI training, including the digital artist Hardy Fowler, who has a Discord community of 10,000 people and had many classes on Udemy until late last month."