In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken off drastically in many spaces. It seems to have come overnight, and now it’s everywhere. Some people have tried to rationalize where AI came from by claiming that the term AI has been around for a while, and it’s become a marketing thing. In the same way “Y2K” was used a lot in the year 1999.
However, it has since changed as more companies like OpenAI have come out with new technologies like Sora (meaning “sky” in Japanese). This new program claims to create life-like videos. This, along with many other technologies associated with AI, have become an alarming subject.
The most distressing part for most, is that AI will likely take the jobs of many people. Artists, photographers, and graphic designers alike. Not only that, but a common issue that AI has is that it steals data from its users. Especially when it comes to art.
Two different programs known as Nightshade and Glaze, have come out with technology to protect artist’s art from AI data scrapers and from AI stealing their art style. This spoke volumes within the internet discussion about AI as a whole. It brought to light a new problem; there’s hardly any laws in place protecting people from getting their work stolen by AI.
In most places, the only thing protecting artists and writers from AI stealing their work is copyright laws, which really hasn’t helped much in most cases, as it only covers some parts of an artist’s work. Under copyright law, an artist owns their work, but once the artwork is sold, the new owner is to do what they want with it. This becomes an issue when companies are selling artists’ work to other companies.
Only as of recently have people begun to question the legal responsibilities of the owners of AI as a whole, as well as moral responsibilities. Many students have started using AI to do their homework for them at a much larger scale than before. This is greatly alarming considering the decrease in literacy over the years. No real solution has been found, but ideally the government will make some laws to keep AI in check.
