Artificial intelligence carries psychological, environmental, and spiritual risks, but legal hazards pose an urgent individual threat. Users and employers risk extensive liability when employing generative AI to create graphics, press releases, logos, or videos because many models train on vast archives of copyrighted material. Outputs can resemble protected works and trigger costly copyright suits. Corporations such as Nintendo pursue intellectual property aggressively, and attorney fees can vastly exceed licensing costs. Media companies have initiated multiple lawsuits against AI platforms over unauthorized commercialization of news content, producing ongoing legal uncertainty for AI users.
Perhaps the most pressing concern on an individual level, though, is that it puts users on the hook for a nearly infinite number of legal hazards - even at work, as it turns out. A recent breakdown by The Register highlights the legal dangers of AI use, especially in corporate settings. If you use generative AI software to spit out graphics, press releases, logos, or videos, you and your employer could end up facing six-figure damages, the publication warns.
This is thanks to the vast archive of copyrighted data that virtuallyall commercial generative AI models are trained on. The Register uses Nintendo's Mario as a prime example of how one might stumble, intentionally or not, into a massive copyright lawsuit, regardless of intent to infringe: if you use AI to generate a cutesy mascot for your plumbing company that looks too much like the iconic videogame character, you could easily find yourself in the legal crosshairs of the notoriously litigious corporation.
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