Copyright and Generative AI Outputs
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 10:10 am
In terms of the specific question about using course outlines as input into ChatGPT to have them rephrased for better understanding, it might be prudent to ask the course instructor if that is OK. They could grant permission or offer other solutions. If this were my course, knowing what goes into a typical course outline, I would likely not have a south africa whatsapp number data problem with this use case. If the result was a better understanding for a student of the course outline material, and they were using this tool for personal purposes, I would not have an issue with that at all.
Some people are seeking to copyright the material that is generated by AI, presumably because they might wish to commercialize or monetize it. Currently this isn’t something that is possible, as illustrated by the Thaler case. This might change as the landscape of copyright and generative AI continues to evolve.
Ethically, we might think about how much unique input we contributed to a work, and whether or not that warrants our copyright of that work. Currently, generative AI makers and users seem to want to “have their cake and eat it too.”
Some people are seeking to copyright the material that is generated by AI, presumably because they might wish to commercialize or monetize it. Currently this isn’t something that is possible, as illustrated by the Thaler case. This might change as the landscape of copyright and generative AI continues to evolve.
Ethically, we might think about how much unique input we contributed to a work, and whether or not that warrants our copyright of that work. Currently, generative AI makers and users seem to want to “have their cake and eat it too.”