Creative AI Is Generating Some Messy Problems
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The hot new trend in tech circles comes with thorny legal and ethical challenges.
A tense scene in the 2004 movie iRobot shows the character played by Will Smith arguing with an android about humanity's creative prowess. “Can a robot write a symphony?” he asks, rhetorically. “Can a robot turn a canvas into a beautiful masterpiece?” “Can you?” the robot answers. Machines wouldn't need the snarky reply in our current reality. The answer would simply be “yes.” In the last few years, artificial-intelligence systems have shifted from being able to process content – recognizing faces or reading and transcribing text — to creating digital paintings or writing essays. The digital artist Beeple was shocked in August when several Twitter users generated their own versions of one o...