But experts are already sounding the alarm and warning of possible risks in relation to data protection and copyright.
Artificial intelligence has been a big topic for years, but with recent breakthroughs the hype has now reached the world of work. AIs are already able to independently create texts, pieces of music and images that are almost indistinguishable from those of a human. Assistance systems such as Lensa, ChatGPT and Dall-E have changed the reality of many employment models so that no one can be sure that content was actually created by a human.
Artificial intelligence presents its users with legal questions
This raises copyright issues and potential risks for users of this technology. In summary: AI presents its users with many legal questions.
The lawyer Dr. Michael Metzner warns: “In addition to the extensive rights to the images, apps like Lensa also claim the right to use works by other authors to train artificial intelligence. Many users are often not aware of this because they generally do not read the terms of use in detail.” He gives users helpful tips on what they should pay attention to when using the popular AI tools.
“Many users are often not aware of this because they usually do not read the terms of use in detail.
Dr. Michael Metzner, lawyer
Can AI use my works to generate content?
There are many controversial questions in the field of AI, e.g. B. whether these systems are really “intelligent”. The chatbot ChatGPT does not generate content from its own creativity, but essentially from existing content from other authors. During editing, however, the program independently learns to further refine the content and thus becomes better and better at imitating people.
However, authors have little legal recourse to prevent their published works from being used by AI for machine learning. This type of use has been expressly permitted in copyright law since 2021. However, creators who want to prevent this can use the machine-readable usage reservation to prevent AI from using their content for machine learning.
Copyright protection of AI-generated content
An important aspect is the question of whether AI-generated content is protected by copyright. EU copyright law stipulates that a work must be original and created by a human being to be protected. AI-generated content would therefore have to be sufficiently original and come from a human creator to be protected by copyright, which is not the case. However, if users edit the content output by the AI and create something of their own from it, they can become the author of the new work.
In practice, it is often difficult to determine whether content comes from an AI or not, which is why it can be assumed that there is a copyright right to use all texts. In order to be able to regulate this better in the future, cooperation between IT and legislators is necessary to create a transparent system for identifying AI.
Can AI content be used safely?
Anyone who wants to use chatbots or other AI systems in everyday work should be aware of the legal risks. Even if AI systems do not simply copy existing texts but create new content from various sources, copyright infringements can still occur. Since AI systems themselves do not critically evaluate the sources, these sources themselves can be plagiarized.
If AI systems are deliberately used to imitate existing content, users are liable in the event of copyright infringement. Users of AI systems should therefore initially limit themselves to everyday and routinely produced content, as with more complex content the risk of using distinctive passages from external sources is higher.
Can AI content be copied?
Commercial users of AI tools put themselves at risk if competitors discover that the content of their online shop was created by AI systems. A competitor could copy text and descriptions with impunity, thereby destroying the uniqueness of the website. Users of such technologies should therefore ensure that they critically examine extensive content and make individual changes.
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