There is a tussle between creators and algorithms. OpenAI’s ChatGPT faces a copyright violation suit in the US. Generative AI developers are increasingly being dragged to courts of law for infringements of copyrights. As it is, old versions of AI were limited to pattern recognition, whereas generative AI is altogether different. Generative AI models ingest vast amounts of data without permission in the process of being trained. Later, its algorithms synthesize data that resembles the original text used in the training. In fact, it mimics the original creation.

Authors Guild accuses OpenAI of systematic theft on a large scale. OpenAI is not alone to do so. There are others. It sweeps up content belonging to others without permission. The same data is used for making its algorithms. In addition, generative AI developers at times allow the third party developers to make their own apps on the top of product. The outcome is the cloned product resembling the author’s or artist’s original work, diluting its market value. News media too generate content using this method –these are vulnerable.

India is a multi-lingual country. It has its own challenges. There should be international regulations for generative AI. In the absence of this, judiciary will come out with different one off solutions. The EU is attempting to avoid this. It expects generative AI to publish summaries of copyright materials used.

India should be proactive here to facilitate the formulation of global regulation. India will lose a lot as a creator of original content, if it does not act proactively.