All roads lead to Rome: Copyright, artificial intelligence, and the media
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3145/thinkepi.2024.e18a15Keywords:
Intellectual property, Copyright, Artificial intelligence, EU Artificial Intelligence ActAbstract
The emergence of artificial intelligence, although it is not new and has been applied in media newsrooms at least since 2014, has experienced a great growth since the commercialization of systems such as ChatGPT, starting at the end of 2022. This increase in the production of content and training of artificial intelligence systems through the massive use of external data has caused very serious issues to be raised about the extent to which current copyright legislation will be able to respond to new challenges. The media, and to a lesser extent the professionals, have used three legal instruments to face these challenges: the reform of the laws, including the approval of a European Directive on artificial intelligence; litigation; and negotiate with large companies involved in the development of artificial intelligence systems, such as OpenAI.References
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