
Lawyers are paying close attention to the proposed regulation of generative artificial intelligence in Europe, the US and China as their clients contend with the unclear risks of violating intellectual property rights.
These AI platforms are trained using existing works and can then produce new works in response to a prompt. And Ceyhun N Pehlivan, co-leader of Linklaters’ telecommunications, media and technology and IP practice in Madrid, points out that the generative AI platforms on the market — ChatGPT, AlphaCode, GitHub Copilot, and Bard — “are collecting all the information out there, this includes texts, images, and videos, and the problem is some of those are protected by copyrights”.