Intellectual Property In The Age Of Generative AI

With generative AI increasingly being incorporated into new and old products and services, a number of issues related to intellectual property have come to the forefront of its use.

Generative AI tools typically operate by responding to a user provided prompt. Depending on the implementation, the response could be text – like a chat bot, an image or even a song. Sophistication of the tools varies with some providing more accurate results, others more whimsical. Behind the scenes, the developers of these tools have 'trained' the tool using huge libraries of training data. Results based on probabilities and predictions, while they may appear creative or original, at times can too closely reflect portions of the training data.