AI And The Copyright Problem
Making Sense Of Generative AI Copyright Issues
When it comes to generative AI, the copyright laws are a bit of a mess right now.
This is understandable considering that generative AI is a new technology that we are still making sense of. As a recent NY Times article suggests, few lawmakers are taking action on AI largely because they don’t understand it.
You can think of AI copyright issues in two categories:
- AI training on copyrighted work, is it fair use?
- Can AI-generated content be copyright protected?
Fair Use Of Training Data
In the first category related to training data, the lawsuits have started:
Three artists are taking legal action against Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt for allegedly using copyrighted images to train their AI models without obtaining permission or compensating the artists.
In addition to that lawsuit, Getty Images is also suing Stability AI over an alleged copyright violation.
Prior to these two lawsuits against AI art, two programmers filed a copyright suit against OpenAI, Microsoft, and GitHub, accusing them of using their code without proper licensing to train the Copilot AI coding…
