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GenAI is trained on a vast amount of data scraped from the internet, which contains the work of many different authors and creators, most of which will be protected by copyright. Therefore, unless they have permission to use the data or have a license, the AI tool could be infringing copyright.
Submitting articles into GenAI for summarising or translation may also have copyright implications if that tool then uses the article as training material.
Currently, there is no definitive guidance on copyright and AI as the software is developing more quickly than legislation and is largely untested in courts. However, as things change and rightsholders alter their approach to AI, this guidance will be updated.
The resulting output generated from a prompt, though classed as ‘new’ content, can result in close similarities with, or reusing substantial sections of, the original work it has been trained on. This means that you may be creating content that is infringing copyright.
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