IP lawyer's son surprises with vibe-coded IP infringement
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IP lawyer's son surprises with vibe-coded IP infringement
""When experimenting with Google's AI Studio over the weekend, my 6-year-old son had the idea to create a website that would tell stories and generate pictures of the story," US IP lawyer Jonathan Menkes, a partner at the Knobbe Martens law firm, explained in a blog post. "In less than 2 minutes, he created a fully interactive website, including the proposed name 'Bedtime Story Weaver.'""
"All it took to get Menkes the younger to create his tool was a few basic prompts that were "so simple, even a six-year-old with zero coding experience" was able to create a web app asking users to provide a target age, theme, characters, an optional morale or lesson, learning objective, preferred story length, and tone, to get an instant AI-penned tale."
"First up, Menkes' son generated a story about a dragon and knight, which came with an accompanying photo. So far, so good, Menkes explained, "but my son's imagination did not stop there." Next he prompted his vibe-coded story generator to give him a story about video game character Sonic the Hedgehog going on an adventure with Nintendo's mascot, Mario. A few more details added, and boom: Google AI Studio's custom website spit out a story about Sonic and Mario questing for coins."
A six-year-old used Google's AI Studio to build a web app named 'Bedtime Story Weaver' that generates stories and images from simple prompts. The app asked for target age, theme, characters, an optional moral or lesson, learning objective, preferred story length, and tone to produce instant AI-penned tales. The child generated a dragon-and-knight story with an image, then created a story featuring copyrighted characters Sonic the Hedgehog and Mario with generated visuals. The speed and simplicity show how generative AI can enable creation of content using copyrighted characters without permission, raising infringement concerns.
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