Legal storm brews as AI chatbots face copyright challenges

In the digital age, ChatGPT and its AI peers are reshaping creativity, leveraging vast troves of human-generated content to compose prose, craft images, and compose music. However, this innovation is stirring legal battles over copyright infringement. News outlets, authors, and music publishers are demanding compensation for their contributions to AI training. As lawsuits unfold, the courts will weigh the boundaries of "fair use," potentially reshaping the landscape of AI development and intellectual property rights.

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By Ethan M Steinberg

How do ChatGPT and other chatbots generate written works, images and music to rival the output of a talented human? By ingesting content that people already created and identifying patterns in the material so they can produce something new. These generative artificial intelligence platforms have hoovered up 19th century novels, beat poetry, draft contracts, movie scripts, photo essays, millions of songs and everything in between on the way to becoming the most disruptive technological force since the invention of the internet. 

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