This is the Cater Daily Podcast for Thursday, April 13th,

2023.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The development of tools like chat gp.

And generative AI apps pose a substantial challenge to copyright law and copyright lawsuits pose a threat

to the development of generative AI.

Writer Tim Lee argues that concerns over compliance could be a driver down the road for consolidation in this new industry,

but attempting to strictly regulate the new tech is far easier said than done.

I think there's a quote from Lawrence Lessing, you can tell me if it's right or not but it was the idea that you and your

friend can make a movie provided that the two of you are in a completely empty room

alone with no brand names or branded products anywhere.

That that's the way to not implicate copyright or other forms of intellectual property and that seems fairly limiting.

Yeah. And AI at least some of the graphics that I've seen some people put my photo into one of these

engines and spit out you know a Warner Brothers looking cartoon character that kind of vaguely looked like me, but I thought,

wow, the art here is quite good. And I can imagine that given the pool from which these engines are drawing their information in order to generate these images,

that could implicate copyright.

So where do you think things stand right now with regard to copyright and the ability to generate this

what appears to be new stuff using these tools.

It's really unclear.

So the way that these systems work is that they, there's a process called training where

the software starts off with basically random settings and then it looks at millions and

millions of images and with each image it tries to reproduce the image and then

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