Can Copyright Tame Generative AI?

Artificial intelligence has become a household name since late 2022, when OpenAI's ChatGPT was first released. Prior to that, artificial intelligence had also been utilized in various random applications. In 2016, Daddy's Car, an AI-generated song emulating the Beatles, was proudly released to fanfare news that its machine producer could make any song using a database of thousands of available songs. Later, in 2018, a painting produced with AI and initially valued at 10,000$ was sold in an auction for 432,500$ in less than seven minutes.

But it was in 2023 that the AI phenomenon took both experts and the public by surprise. No day has passed by without some AI-related news. A prestigious literary prize in Japan was awarded to a novel later revealed to have been co-written with AI. Deepfakes, employing the voice or faces of celebrities have been all over the place. And there seems to be no end to all this. On a larger scale, some blissfully reckon AI echoes the next