Grayson Perry has said he doesn’t “really mind” if his work is used to train AI models, adding that throughout his entire career he had been “ripping off” others.
Speaking at the Charleston literature festival, held on the grounds of the former home of the Bloomsbury Group artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, the artist jokingly referred to himself as “the world champion of cultural appropriation”.
“I’ve never worried about if anyone wants to use my work in a lecture or whatever they want to do with it,” he said. Nor does he expect any money from those uses – partly because much of his work’s value comes from it being “physical” and “often unique”.