Generative AI's Intellectual Property Problem Heats Up

AI-crafted inventions and AI-generated works of art face an immediate problem: patent law and copyright law were crafted by humans, for humans. Intellectual property law, as the world understands it, explicitly doesn’t recognize non-human creators. For many intellectual property experts, that’s a problem that the world will increasingly have to face as large language models like ChatGPT or Bard grow more sophisticated. And there’s no sign of an emerging consensus of how laws might be reformed, adding risk and uncertainty …

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