The UK Parliament passed sweeping legislation yesterday requiring all citizens to contribute 10% of their creative output to the National AI Development Fund, a measure MPs praised as "bringing feudal efficiency to the digital age."
Under the Digital Peasant Act, the government will assess citizens' creative potential through its newly established Bureau of Algorithmic Phrenology, where AI systems analyze skull shapes to determine optimal data extraction quotas. Those deemed highly creative must report to local Algorithmic Workhouses for supervised prompting sessions.
"We've democratized data harvesting," explained Lord Timothy Blackwood-Pierce, Director of the Common Sense AI Development Committee. "Our Neural Efficiency Scoring system ensures we extract maximum value from each citizen's cognitive processes. A Class-A imagination can generate up to 47% more training data per neural cycle."
The Act introduces "Data Indulgences," allowing wealthy creators to purchase exemptions by surrendering their children's future creative output to the national AI corpus. "It's a market-based solution," noted Minister of Digital Economy Helena Walsh. "Parents can now efficiently leverage their offspring's cognitive potential before it even develops."
Tech industry leaders celebrated the "Heritage Creativity Clause," which permits families to surrender ancestral creative works—including great-grandmother's cookie recipes and grandfather's war diaries—to reduce modern obligations. The Creative Revenue Service has already begun digitizing inherited postcards and family photo albums.
The legislation also establishes the Creative Commons Premium Ultra Plus Max license, granting AI companies preemptive ownership of all works not yet conceived. "We're streamlining the inspiration-to-data pipeline," explained Marcus Thorne, CEO of DeepMind subsidiary Efficient Harvest Solutions. "Why wait for humans to actually create something when we can own it in advance?"
To ensure comprehensive data collection, the Act's Posthumous Creativity Recovery Program requires estates to surrender all unpublished works, shopping lists, and margin doodles within 48 hours of a citizen's death. "The deceased have historically been very inefficient at contributing to machine learning datasets," noted Walsh. "This closes that productivity gap."
The Act takes effect next month. Citizens are advised to begin cataloging their creative works, scheduling their phrenological assessments, and preparing their children's cognitive futures for market evaluation.
