Intellectual property rights

Classification

Domain

6. Socioeconomic & Environmental

Subdomain

6.3 Economic and cultural devaluation of human effort

Causal entity

Human

Intent

Other

Timing

Pre-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

• Cultural dispossession

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

• Loss of creativity/critical thinking

  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)

Other entries from GOS2023

• Discrimination Risk Category · 1.1
• Inequality Risk Category · 6.2
• Environmental impacts Risk Category · 6.6
• Amplification of biases Risk Category · 1.1
• Harmful responses Risk Category · 1.2
• Lack of transparency and interpretability Risk Category · 7.4
• Providing new capabilities to a malicious actor Risk Category
• Misapplication by a non-malicious actor Risk Category
• Poor performance of a model used for its intended purpose, for example leading to biased decisions Risk Category · 7.3
• Unintended outcomes from interactions with other AI systems Risk Category · 7.3
• Impacts resulting from interactions with external societal, political, and economic systems Risk Category
• Loss of human control and oversight, with an autonomous model then taking harmful actions Risk Category · 7.1