Last August, the Official Journal of the European Union published the new EU legislation to be gradually introduced in the member countries regarding Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The EU Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act) arose out of a state of uncertainty and fear about the impact of AI on people's daily lives. How often do we come across highly realistic videos on social media, the so-called ‘deepfakes’ or photographs that almost look real?
However, this is not the only impact that AI has on our life. There are more and more reports of authors, filmmakers and painters suing large ‘mother’ companies of AI systems, such as META, for using their creations as the basis for creating new deconstructed and then arranged to resemble something new and innovative. These authors claim that their copyright has been violated, because they did not consent to the use of their pieces as the basis for these algorithms.
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