Intellectual property and generative AI: an overview of the main concerns

The emergence of generative AI has revolutionised our lives, in particular when the unveiling of platforms such as ChatGPT, Dall-E2 and Stable Diffusion have made this technology accessible to the public. The public discourse is currently focused on the legal and governance challenges regarding AI and spans a broad range of topics including legal risks such as the misuse of personal data, creation of biased outputs and the prevalence of misinformation. 

The use of AI also raises very important questions about the protection of intellectual property (IP) rights, such as:

• How are the models trained?
• Does scraping publicly available data from the Internet infringe third-party IP rights?
• Is it admissible to train AI models by copying materials sourced from the Internet?
• Who owns the AI outputs?

We seek to answer these questions in a recent article for Contact Online Magazine (Digitalization). 

The legal and regulatory landscape in the field of AI is still developing. With the EU AI Act on the horizon, it is essential for organisations to be aware of the current regulations and stay up-to-date with any new regulatory developments. 

Businesses need to understand how to use generative AI solutions in such ways that do not infringe on third-party IP rights. Consideration also needs to be given as to how to protect patents and confidential information while using generative AI solutions.

See the full article: Intellectual property and generative AI: an overview of the main concerns | British Polish Chamber of Commerce (bpcc.org.pl)