MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Sub-Category · 47.03.05
Copyright challenges (uncertain intellectual property status of AI-generated content)
Category: Legal challenges
Description
"The question of who owns the intellectual property rights associated with the output of an AI model remains unresolved in most legal systems. For now, it could be considered that the individual writing the prompt owns the resulting output—provided that there is sufficient human contribution."
From Regulating under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI (G'sell2024), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).
Classification
Other entries from G'sell2024
- Technical and operational risks
- Technical vulnerabilities (Robustness - unexpected behaviour)
- Technical vulnerabilities (Robustness - unexpected behaviour)
- Technical vulnerabilities (Robustness - vulnerability to jailbreaking
- Technical vulnerabilities (Robustness - vulnerability to jailbreaking
- Technical vulnerabilities (The risk of misalignment)
- Technical vulnerabilities (The risk of misalignment)
- Factually incorrect content (inaccuracies and fabricated sources)
- Factually incorrect content (inaccuracies and fabricated sources)
- Opacity (the black box problem)
- Opacity (industry opacity)
- Opacity (industry opacity)