How to think about AI Delving into the legal and ethical challenges of a game - changing technology

 At first, the quirky photo that flooded the internet in March seemed entirely authentic. The viral online image depicted Pope Francis, looking like he had just stepped off a Parisian runway, strutting down the street clad in an uber trendy, oversized white puffer coat.

The internet went crazy. But when viewers took a closer look, they realized the picture of the pontiff was actually fake, created by the prompts of a Chicago resident using the artificial intelligence image generator Midjourney. It was just another example of the kind of increasingly sophisticated product AI is capable of turning out.

Who can claim the right to an image or written work or piece of music created with AI?

Such believable machine-generated output is raising a host of legal and ethical questions around authorship, fair use, copyright, and more. Who can claim the right to an image or written work or piece of music developed with AI? Should the artists, whose works are part of the massive data sets computers rely on to generate their results, be credited and compensated? Who should be held accountable for misinformation and disinformation? And should the law be updated to reflect the rapidly changing AI landscape? (...)