The risk of overprotecting human content creators
Stronger laws on human-authored works could be overly protectionist. Any changes to the law should consider three factors.
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If the law becomes overly protective of human-generated works, society could lose some of the benefits that AI brings, says the writer.
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Ben Chester Cheong
Imagine two designers producing essentially the same advertising image.
One spends four hours developing the concept, drawing it and revising it. The other uses artificial intelligence to brainstorm and generate several initial concepts, then spends an hour selecting and reworking one into a final image.