The AI plagiarism minefield [Influence - AI and copyright]
C. Edwards · Engineering & Technology · 2023
A series of legal disputes has highlighted the complex relationship between artificial intelligence and copyright law. Since the launch of ChatGPT, the problem of detecting unwanted copies has become much more difficult in what is a natural by-product of the way in which these systems work. The models encode the data they are fed, merging altered versions of the sources in such a way that although they seem to hold large amounts of verbatim data, those sources are intermingled. The technical issues must also contend with the different legal systems around the world. Most agree on definitions of copyright rights, but they have different standards on what can go to trial and what constitutes infringement.