Japan was (to my knowledge) the first country to officially rule on AI generated images with regards to copyright… They deemed it fair game to use copyrighted material in training, but subject to copyright infringement if the AI generates something too close to copyrighted material. It’ll be interesting to see where other countries weigh in on this issue.
Theoretically, someone has to be considered responsible for what an AI does. Especially now that we’re seeing businesses start using AI for things like talking to customers… If they had full immunity against lawsuits for things their AI says, that’d set a really bad precedent; we’ll just have to see where the line gets drawn.
Japan’s case is very interesting already, but if a large economy comes out with a more restrictive ruling then that’s the law most international companies will end up sticking by. Disney isn’t going to risk losing copyright in the rest of the world just because Japanese law would permit them to use AI, for example.
I agree that this would be a bad precedent. Personally, I think the way AI companies have gotten away with things that would obviously be crimes if they couldn’t hide behind their magical neural networks has become too much of a problem to ignore.
Japan was (to my knowledge) the first country to officially rule on AI generated images with regards to copyright… They deemed it fair game to use copyrighted material in training, but subject to copyright infringement if the AI generates something too close to copyrighted material. It’ll be interesting to see where other countries weigh in on this issue.
Theoretically, someone has to be considered responsible for what an AI does. Especially now that we’re seeing businesses start using AI for things like talking to customers… If they had full immunity against lawsuits for things their AI says, that’d set a really bad precedent; we’ll just have to see where the line gets drawn.
Japan’s case is very interesting already, but if a large economy comes out with a more restrictive ruling then that’s the law most international companies will end up sticking by. Disney isn’t going to risk losing copyright in the rest of the world just because Japanese law would permit them to use AI, for example.
I agree that this would be a bad precedent. Personally, I think the way AI companies have gotten away with things that would obviously be crimes if they couldn’t hide behind their magical neural networks has become too much of a problem to ignore.