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Who Owns the Picture?

An AI can paint pictures. It can make music and write texts. Often that takes only seconds. But who owns these works?

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What you'll learn in this level

  • What an AI used to learn painting
  • Why the law treats a style differently from a picture
  • What would be fair for artists

Who Owns an AI Picture?

An AI can paint pictures. It can make music and write texts. Often that takes only seconds. But who owns these works?

It practised with millions of pictures, songs and texts by real people. That makes one hard question: if the AI learned from Lisa's pictures — does it have to name Lisa?

Questions That Come Up

  1. Training Data

    An AI practises with real works. They come from painters, musicians and writers. Mostly nobody asked them first.

  2. Copying a Style

    An AI can paint like one certain person. Nothing is copied exactly. Is that fair?

  3. Transparency

    If AI helped with a piece of work, others should be allowed to know.

  4. Fair Solutions

    People can ask first. They can label AI works. And they can pay the artists. That makes it fairer.

Here you look at real cases. They are about pictures, music and texts from an AI. Each time you think about what is fair.

Guess first, then experiment

An AI paints a picture exactly in the style of a real illustrator. It copied none of her pictures. Is that against the law?