How an AI model is trained is different from what it produces.
Copyright law has long aimed to protect creators’ rights and incentives while also giving people access to knowledge and creative works. The U.S. Constitution laid the foundation for this legal protection: copyright exists to “promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts” by giving authors exclusive rights to their works for a limited time.
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is testing how those principles apply to a new technology. AI models are increasingly powerful tools that can create text, images, and other content. However, they rely on existing material for training, much of which is copyrighted. As AI advances, creators and AI ...
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