Generative AI Has An Intellectual Property Problem, Here's Why

Munir Suboh and Felicity Hammond of the BSA Intellectual Property team recently spoke with Arabian Business regarding artificial intelligence (AI), answering the following questions:

How would you describe the current state of intellectual property rights in relation to generative AI and its impact on AI-generated content? Does generative AI have an intellectual property problem?

Generative AI is a type of advanced capabilities AI in comparison to the Narrow AI. It can create original content based on the patterns it has learnt from accumulated data, information and other features. Whilst the Narrow AI is known as "Weak AI" as it can help only in limited tasks, Generative AI is a result of deep learning techniques which allow it to decipher more complex patterns and make its own decisions and perform more advanced, or unlimited tasks, without human intervention or direct role. However, Generative AI is still manageable and has not yet reached to suppress human