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Generative AI technology is throwing up new challenges in the area of copyright law. Several court cases are arising that will have to answer the question of what relationship, if any, the content created by huge datasets of copyrighted work has to the creators of those original works. While the courts wrestle with this dilemma, another technology could potentially have the answer: blockchain. Recent innovations in artificial intelligence (AI) are raising as many new questions as they are providing new possibilities, particularly for developers, creators, governments, and lawmakers, not all of whom have a similar stake in the technology. One area where interests collide is copyright law. AI-generated content has thrown up issues around authorship, infringement, and fair use, with so-called “generative AI” programs—such as OpenAI’s DALL-E and ChatGPT, and Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion—able to generate new images, texts, and other content, in response to a user’s textual prompts or inputs. These generative AI programs, also known as large language models (LLMs), are AI algorithms that use deep learning techniques and huge datasets to understand, summarize, and generate new content. LLMs are trained to create content partly by exposing themselves to large quantities of existing works such as writings, photos, paintings, and other artworks. Herein lies the problem. Some of this work will be copyrighted material, and using it in AI training datasets without authorization can result in disputes, and this has been done. Two distinct legal issues arise with regard to copyright and IP. First, who, if anyone, owns the created work and holds the copyright to content created using these programs, given that the AI’s user, the AI’s programmer, and the AI program itself all play a role in creating these works? The second, perhaps more complex, issue to answer is whether that created work/content has violated the copyright of one of the creators from…

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