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Questions tagged [artificial-intelligence]

Artificial Intelligence involves computers generating data or using data. Questions should be related to the legal uses of said technology, or litigation related to it.

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Can someone replicate and freely use anyone's voice using AI?

Suppose person A offers paid voiceover services, and is a popular voiceover artist. Person B wants person A's voice for their revenue-generating internet video projects, because they know it will offer a significant profits-boost. It is legally all…
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Is it illegal for a firm to train an AI model on a CC BY-SA 4.0 corpus and make a commercial use of it without distributing the model under CC BY-SA?

https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/388551/178179 mentions that SE will force some firms to pay to be allowed to train an AI model on the SE data dump (CC BY-SA licensed) and make a commercial use of it without distributing the model under CC…
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If we use a generative AI to generate original images, can we use these images in a product that we sell?

Generative AI can create images. Assume that these images are totally original. Would that mean that we would have the full rights to the images created by the AI? Could we use these images in a product that we sell? UPDATE "AI Art" is possible…
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Why can't the current legal system handle liability for harm caused by artificial intelligence?

I'm confused about why people claim that current legal system cannot handle any wrongdoings of algorithms that involve artificial intelligence. The claim is that it is impossible to find who is liable for the wrongdoing. This claim seems strange:…
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Is there any legal justification for content on the web without an explicit licence being freeware?

Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI has expressed an opinion that creative works published openly on the web without an explicit licence are freeware and the restrictions of copyright do not apply. Is there anything at all that could support…
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Could it be illegal to intentionally "poison" AI crawling?

There is a youtube about generating images with features designed to "poison" generative AI trained on those images. This technique could potentially be used by anyone who was worried about their content being harvested by AI's. On any website…
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is there (yet) a standard, simple license header that prohibits machine learning?

Is there an SPDX or other widely accepted license header syntax/format that prohibits machine learning? My company's Github license statement includes: "Licensee is not granted the right to, and Licensee shall not ...[use company's open source code…
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Can AI-generated text be considered defamation?

This question is inspired by recent news about some of the strange, out-of-control behavior from Microsoft's new Bing chat AI, but I am asking hypothetically here. If an AI chatbot such as Bing Chat or ChatGPT said factually untrue things that did…
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Chat AI is reproducing unlicensed code from a website verbatim: what can the original author do about it?

Let's presume that a chat-based AI, for certain queries/prompts involving specific phrases, is reproducing, verbatim, code that was placed on a publicly accessible website. The code on the website had no explicit licence attached to it. Presumably…
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Is reverse engineering software using neural networks legal?

Suppose there is some class of mathematical problems and a paid software that solves this class of mathematic problem. Now, let's say someone uses this paid software to generate training sets for a neural network to learn on, and then eventually…
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Are Terms of Service enforceable upon AI generated content?

I have read in other posts on this website that AI generated content cannot be copyrighted, because it was not created by a human, it is public domain, and not owned by a human. If such content is not owned by any human, can companies really enforce…
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Is an AI model considered a derivative work?

Suppose an AI art model was trained exclusively on Mr. X's artwork. Suppose Mr. X managed to prove that the model was only capable of producing derivative works. He would then own the copyright to all the art produced by this model. But would Mr. X…
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What IP law would apply to trained weights of an AI model?

In simple terms, any AI system will consist of three elements: Code, written by humans, that defines the mathematical model The mathematical model itself, as it exists within the computer The model weights, millions or billions of parameters that…
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Who if anyone owns copyright of algorithmically produced works?

The image below is generated in real time by a Generative Adversarial Network trained on existing works of art (try reloading the page). The process is described in their paper which also demonstrates that it is indistinguishable by humans from art…
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Can AI help ordinary people (non-lawyers) analyze cases in reality?

Can AI help ordinary people analyze cases in reality? Including analysis based on information provided by the parties. For example, analyzing litigation requests, evidence, trial records, and judgments to obtain a guiding suggestion or result.
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