Undermining creative economies

Classification

Domain

6. Socioeconomic & Environmental

Subdomain

6.3 Economic and cultural devaluation of human effort

Causal entity

AI

Intent

Unintentional

Timing

Post-deployment

Subdomain definition: AI systems capable of creating economic or cultural value, including through reproduction of human innovation or creativity (e.g., art, music, writing, code, invention), can destabilize economic and social systems that rely on human effort. This may lead to reduced appreciation for human skills, disruption of creative and knowledge-based industries, and homogenization of cultural experiences due to the ubiquity of AI-generated content.

Real-world incidents in this subdomain

• 13 Feb 2026Seedance 2.0 Reportedly Generated Viral Tom Cruise–Brad Pitt Fight Video, Prompting Hollywood IP and Likeness Complaints
• 5 Dec 2025The New York Times Sued Perplexity for Allegedly Using Copyrighted Content and Generating False Attributions
• 17 Nov 2025Reported Disqualification of Two Books from the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Due to Alleged AI-Generated Cover Art
• 9 Jan 2024Unauthorized AI Impersonation of George Carlin Used in Comedy Special
• 29 Aug 2022GAN Artwork Won First Place at State Fair Competition

How other frameworks describe this risk

• Loss of creativity/critical thinking

  A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024)

• Cultural dispossession

  A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024)

• Copyright infringement

  International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI (Bengio2024)

• Risks of copyright infringement

  International AI Safety Report 2025 (Bengio2025)

• Copyright Violation

  Risk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model Systems (Cui2024)

• Intellectual property rights violations

  Navigating the Landscape of AI Ethics and Responsibility (Cunha2023)

• Impact on Intellectual Property Rights

  Generating Harms - Generative AI's impact and paths forwards (EPIC2023)

• Intellectual Property

  AILUMINATE: Introducing v1.0 of the AI Risk and Reliability Benchmark from MLCommons (Ghosh2024)

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