Eran Kahana, an intellectual-property lawyer at Maslon LLP and a fellow at Stanford Law School, explains that the reason why IP laws exist is to ‘prevent others from using it and enabling the owner to generate a benefit. An AI doesn’t have any of those needs. AI is a tool to generate those kinds of content.’ What if AI creates a piece of art in the style of a living artist? It’s likely that the programmer might be sued for copyright infringement but it’s a very grey area. Inspiration and imitation are central to the artistic process. Where is the line between your own creation and copying
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