“The legal ambiguity of art created by artificial intelligence adds confusion to controversy,” writes Elizabeth Penava L’23 at The Regulatory Review.
In an essay published at The Regulatory Review, Elizabeth Penava L’23 explores copyright and privacy concerns with art generated by artificial intelligence.
From The Regulatory Review:
A picture may be worth a thousand words. But what about a picture generated entirely by a machine?
But the reality is that little regulation protects the copyrighted works used to train these AI-based technologies, and privacy protections for images used in the creation of AI-based art are scant. Advocates have called for regulatory solutions rooted in copyright and privacy law.
Toward the end of last year, popular use of the Lensa AI app, which generates stylized portraits based on users’ uploaded selfies, spurred the latest round of controversy over the ethics of AI-generated art. Debate over AI art had been raging since earlier last year, when other popular AI models such as DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion rapidly gained popularity.
Some commentators have noted that these programs have made art more accessible… .
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