Generative AI Copyright Cases Under Cloud of UncertaintyOne of the more pressing, complex and unresolved questions surrounding generative AI is whether and when training AI on copyrighted material infringes copyright law.
Text, image and video AI models are trained on massive data sets, often scraped from publicly available data on the internet. As AI tools have come to market, creative rightsholders — from large public media companies to individual artists and content creators — have publicly argued AI’s use of that data for model training infringes copyright law. In two lawsuits started earlier this year, Getty Images and artists in the class action each claim infringement of their copyrighted material used as data to train AI.