MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Sub-Category · 60.03.06

Risks of copyright infringement

Category: Systemic risks

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Description

"The use of vast amounts of data for training general- purpose AI models has caused concerns related to data rights and intellectual property. Data collection and content generation can implicate a variety of data rights laws, which vary across jurisdictions and may be under active litigation. Given the legal uncertainty around data collection practices, AI companies are sharing less information about the data they use. This opacity makes third- party AI safety research harder."

From International AI Safety Report 2025 (Bengio2025), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).

Classification

Domain: 6. Socioeconomic & Environmental
Subdomain: 6.3 Economic and cultural devaluation of human effort
Causal entity: Human
Intent: Other
Timing: Other

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.

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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)
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)
Intellectual property rights
Future Risks of Frontier AI (GOS2023)

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