Copyright and AI: Legal Disputes, Fair Use, and Creative Boundaries

This chapter delves into the ongoing legal disputes surrounding AI and copyright, highlighting the claims made against Open AI's chat GPT by authors like Sarah Silverman and Paul Tremblay. It explores the use of copyright works to train AI models, the copyrightability of AI-generated material, and the treatment of generative AI outputs that mimic human artists. The chapter concludes with a discussion on the importance of protecting one's own work and the challenges in distinguishing between AI-generated content and human-created content.