Generative AI prompts serious questions of copyright

Source: The post is based on the article “Generative AI prompts serious questions of copyright” published in the Livemint on 15th February 2023.

Syllabus: GS 3 – Awareness in the fields of IT.

Relevance: About AI generated art.

News: The improvements in artificial intelligence (AI) with ChatGPT has shown the importance of generative AI.

How generative AI aid in creating AI generated art?

-Ordinary people with no formal artistic training can create stunning visual arts and images in the style of famous artists using generative AI tools like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion.

What are the challenges associated with AI generated art?

Issue of copyright: To create output in the styles of so many artists, the AI must have been trained on hundreds of samples of their work. Every output it generates is an original work that has no one-to-one correspondence to any part or whole of any image of a given artist.

However, it is not clear whether it constitute the offence of “copying” under copyright law or not.

The US Copyright Office has already declared that AI generated art is not entitled to intellectual property protection as it lacks the “nexus between the human mind and creative expression”.