A deep dive into contemporary issues around AI, copyright, and the true meaning of “fair use.”
In the event you’re reading this, you’re a part of the content creator ecosystem: either as a fellow author, casual consumer or a Medium subscriber. You help keep the system running, which implies you’ve a stake in the topic of today’s post, which will probably be all about copyright concerns and Generative AI.
I’ve been keeping an interested eye on this topic for some time. As each a author and someone working with “Gen AI” day-after-day, it’s in my very own personal and skilled best interests to accomplish that. In fact, copyright isn’t the one legal and ethical issue tied to Gen AI, neither is Gen AI the primary technology to boost such flags. Nonetheless, it has captured public attention on a wholly recent scale, which is why I’m diving into it today.
Let’s start with key stakeholders and significant questions. Up to now, probably the most vocal stakeholders in discourse on Generative AI and copyright law have been:
- builders of Generative AI models,
- consumers of such models’ outputs,
- and content producers, whose IP may wind up in a model’s…
