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I tried reading that article, but for a topic that I find interesting (especially as someone who has studied AI and machine learning) I hoped it would be more a
by rm999 11y ago
I tried reading that article, but for a topic that I find interesting (especially as someone who has studied AI and machine learning) I hoped it would be more approachable and easier to read. Can anyone explain the last few sentences for me?
>The increasing sophistication of generative software and the reality that all creativity is algorithmic compel recognition that AI-authored works are less heterogeneous to both their human counterparts and existing copyright doctrine than appearances may at first suggest. AI authorship is readily assimilable to the current copyright framework through the work made for hire doctrine, which is a mechanism for vesting copyright directly in a legal person who is acknowledged not to be the author-in-fact of the work in question. Through this legal fiction, the machinic creativity of generative code can be recognized for what it really is—something other than (but owing to) the human creativity of its coder
- sp332 11y agoAI should be considered legal "persons". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_personality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_personality This is not treating them like humans, but for example businesses can be legal persons as well. It's an entity that can own things and enter into contracts. Instead of making some new, complex law about AI owning copyrights, we can recycle the "work-for-hire" doctrine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_for_hire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_for_hire That's where a person makes something (e.g. a book) as their job, and the person who hired them ends up owning the copyright. That way, the AI is "hired" to produce images for the operator, and the operator owns the images.