A deep dive into contemporary issues surrounding ai, copyright, and the true meaning of “fair use.”
If you’re reading this, you’re part of the content creator ecosystem — whether you’re a writer, a casual consumer, or a Medium subscriber. You help keep the system running, which means you have a stake in the topic of today’s post, which will be about copyright issues and generative ai.
I’ve been following this topic with interest for a while now. As a writer and as someone who works with the “ai generation” every day, it is in my own personal and professional interest to do so. Of course, copyright is not the only legal and ethical issue tied to the ai generation, nor is it the first technology to raise such issues. However, it has captured public attention on a whole new scale, so today I’m diving into it.
Let’s start with the key stakeholders and critical questions. So far, the most active stakeholders in the debate on generative ai and copyright legislation have been:
- Generative ai model builders,
- consumers of the results of these models,
- and content producers, whose intellectual property may end up in the hands of a model…
