Inaugural lecture Dr. Anke Moerland
Appointed as Professor of "Intellectual Property, Frontier Technologies and International Trade" in the Faculty of Law
“Academic output as input for AI: what role to play for universities?"
It is not disputed that artificial intelligence, and in particular large-language models, are trained, among others, on copyright-protected works. In the majority of cases, however, the authors of these works do not receive remuneration for the use of their works in AI training, even though the output these AI models are meant to produce are likely to compete with human creativity and may eventually even kill the demand for it.
Intellectual property law in general and copyright law in particular serves as a tool to achieve a balance between prevalent societal interests. I argue that copyright law can and should play a role in ensuring that 1) AI models are trained with high quality, human copyright-protected works, and thereby provide the basis for AI models to generate high quality and diverse output that reflects our values and beliefs, and 2) that human authors can continue to make a living out of human-created works. Universities can contribute to achieving this balance.
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