April 27, 2023
New York/Los Angeles — The Amazon.com US website offers a number of e-books with conversational AI model ChatGPT listed as an author or co-author. Genres include cookbooks and novels.
ChatGPT reads large amounts of text and other online materials and generates text according to user instructions. If phrases or full sentences that appear in celebrities or news articles are generated, there is a risk of copyright infringement.
It is imperative that AI-generated works are checked once they are published, but it is not yet clear to what extent these checks have been carried out.
The News/Media Alliance, a non-profit organization of approximately 2,000 publishers in the United States, released a statement on AI principles on April 20, stating that “GAI’s unauthorized use of content created by us and journalists is prohibited. , [generative artificial intelligence] The system is a violation of intellectual property rights. ”
Furthermore, “GAI developers and deployers must negotiate with publishers for rights to use their content.”
Under U.S. copyright law, use of copyrighted material for certain limited purposes, such as research, news reporting, and education, is permitted under the doctrine of “fair use” and thus does not constitute copyright infringement. yeah. However, there is no precedent as to whether learning and creating work with AI is fair use, and the use of generative AI is subject to clear guidance as to whether what it produces may violate the law. continued without
Recently, attention has been focused on ongoing US lawsuits on this very issue.
In January, cartoonist and illustrator Sarah Andersen, 30, and two American artists gave several companies, including Stability AI, Ltd., a British start-up that developed an artificial intelligence (AI) image generator. filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the State of California for copyright infringement. stable diffusion.
Stable Diffusion’s text-to-image model is based on approximately 6 billion image and text datasets that are freely available through the German non-profit organization Lion. With Stable Diffusion, you specify the style of a particular artist, placement of people, etc., and the system creates an image as if it were created by the specified artist.
The work of Sarah Andersen
Courtesy of Sarah Andersen
Andersen argues that works created by generated AI must have consent from the original artist, artist credit, and artist compensation.
In response to the lawsuit, Stability AI and other defendants argued that the AI-generated images did not resemble the artist’s work and that the lawsuit did not identify the specific images that were allegedly misappropriated. filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit.
In late October, Stability AI announced it had raised $101 million from investors, at a valuation of around $1 billion.
In the United States, IT giants and AI-related startups have grown under loose regulations based on “neoliberalism.” US Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently called for a temporary halt to the development of cutting-edge AI, saying it could pose serious risks to humanity. I had the same opinion as the department.
But Musk has since announced that his company will launch a ChatGPT-like service on April 17. The IT giants are now battling for AI supremacy without a second thought.
The debate over the review of US copyright law has yet to begin in earnest.
“It will be years before we get real clarity from the courts on some of these. [boundaries of AI and copyright]Juliana Neilbauer, partner at US law firm Fox Rothschild, said:
However, in the UK, there are strong concerns that training AI systems infringes copyright, so the UK severely regulates what can be collected and analyzed using AI systems.
Artwork created by generative AI after Sarah Andersen entered her name into the system
Courtesy of Sarah Andersen
The UK government had announced policies to deregulate the development of AI, but backed out after parliament objected that the creative industries should not be endangered.
Andersen and two fellow artists decided to file a class action lawsuit after discovering a Twitter post from a fan. Last October, she received a unique painting of a person with a pet holding an umbrella, painted with her familiar touch.
She said she was horrified when she found herself touching the image.
The image is said to have been created by entering her name into a generative AI system.
After that, I put my name into the image-generating AI to try it out, and I was able to get the system to create images in my style. Appalled, she decided to take action.
The artists claim their data was used by Stable Diffusion without permission. They couldn’t overlook the fact that they weren’t paid for the work used to train the AI system.
In February, Getty Images Inc., which sells photos and videos to businesses and news organizations around the world, also filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Stability AI, alleging it used more than 12 million Getty photos without permission. rice field.
As a non-profit organization, Lion may collect copyrighted data for research purposes. However, given that his Stability AI for profit supports Laion, the use of data by Stability AI is highly questionable.
Andersen is furious that Stability AI is making money by exploiting a legal loophole that allows for-profit companies to take advantage of special NPO exemptions.
Andersen said companies involved in generative AI have no interest in protecting artists’ rights. She said the only way to get them to listen to the artist’s songs was through legal action.
Sarah Andersen
Yomiuri Shimbun
