Artificial 'inventors' are pushing patent law to its limits
Can software be an ‘inventor’? As courts wrestle with AI patent applications, the law must change to keep up.
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Can software be an ‘inventor’? As courts wrestle with AI patent applications, the law must change to keep up.
Alan Warburton / Better Images of AI, CC BY-SA It was the veritable search for a needle
Society needs to consider the impact of AI on the innovation system, particularly on laws regarding intellectual property and patents.
When a friend messaged voice actor Bev Standing to ask whether she was the voice of TikTok’s text-to-speech feature, the Canadian performer’s surprise soon turned to irritation. She had never done work for the popular social media platform, yet the voice was unmistakably hers. Standing concluded that speech recordings she had done for another client years earlier had somehow been obtained by TikTok, and fed into an algorithm which allows users to turn written text into a voiceover for video clips in the app. She sued TikTok in a case that was settled in September — one that performing ar...
With the rise of AI, creators want laws to protect the use of their image or voice in algorithm-generated works.