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S4: Authorship Rights in the Age of AI: Who Owns the Creation?

EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ON CREATIVE WRITING

Illustrative figure representing the impact of AI on content creation (credits DALL-E).

Between 2023 and 2024, we witnessed an exponential increase in the publication of AI-generated books, particularly on platforms like Amazon, where thousands of titles with content partially or entirely generated by AI have been released.

This phenomenon is transforming the publishing industry, forcing publishers and authors to adapt to this new landscape.

1 — Ethical and Legal Challenges

The popularization of AI-assisted production raises fundamental questions about authorship and copyright:

Who should be considered the true creator of a work generated by AI?

How can we ensure that the content does not infringe on copyright?

These issues become even more complex when considering that AI models are trained on large volumes of data, often containing copyrighted material.

Some of the most relevant challenges include: