A few years ago, a student came to see me during office hours to talk about their assignment. They were upset because their essay had received a low mark—not a fail, but much lower than expected. I knew from seminars that they were exceptionally bright and conscientious, participated in discussions, Read more
I now have access to both ChatGPT and Bard, so I thought I would set them the same question, so I asked both this prompt: “write a 700 word blog post about image rights”. Here are the results, you be the judge. Bard: Image rights are the rights that an Read more
If you’ve been following the AI scene, you may have seen a video by Corridor Crew entitled Anime Rock, Paper, Scissors. The video is a short animation telling the story of twin brothers who want to gain control of an unnamed kingdom, and one challenges the other to the Holy Read more
I have now uploaded my latest article on copyright and artificial intelligence to SSRN, and I’m looking for constructive feedback (the article can be found here or if SSRN isn’t working, here). I’ve entitled it “A Scanner Darkly: Copyright Infringement in Artificial Intelligence Inputs and Outputs” in part as a Read more
What many of us had expected has finally happened, artist have sued for copyright infringement a couple of AI companies, as well as an art repository site (complaint here). Is this the end of AI tools? I don’t think so, I’ll try to explain why, this will not be a Read more
This was generated with AI Article Writer 3.0, I didn’t edit a single word, you be the judge (thanks to Philippe Jougleux for the idea). Link to the header image here, created with Midjourney. Copyright Law in the Digital Age: A Legal Analysis of AI and Copyright Cases Image Read more
The copyright wars are back, and this time the conflict is all about artificial intelligence. While most of the public has been paying attention to what is going on with AI art tools such as DALL-E, the current stage of AI development started with text tools, particularly GPT-3 and the Read more
On Tuesday 11 October 2022 I gave evidence to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee. Beforehand we were given a set of questions to prepare. While this does not reflect the final version of my statements, it covers most of what was said (I will post a link Read more
One of my favourite anime series of all time is the first season of Sword Art Online. It’s a story about your typical massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), an earlier Metaverse to all of you young ones, this is an immersive VR space where users log in using a Read more
As AI creative tools are becoming widespread, the question of copyright of AI creations has also taken centre-stage. But while copyright nerds obsess over the authorship question, the issue that is getting more attention from artists is that of copyright infringement. AI is trained on data, in the case of Read more