Opinion: AI tools like ChatGPT are built on mass copyright infringement

Zainab Choudhry is a startup founder who has worked in law, technology and media in New York and Toronto.

The old world, wherein only human minds had evolved to create stories, art, music and poetry, is no more.

We have now entered the era of generative artificial intelligence, a type of AI that can create new content based on datasets of existing content it has been “fed” and trained on. In this new era, generative AI developers are building the minds of these machines by training them on content created by humans of the past and present, from Shakespeare to Atwood, Caravaggio to Koons….