Artificial Intelligence and Contemporary Art

Artificial intelligence programmes use large amounts of data from existing artworks to generate new images that often challenge human artists in their originality. While some contemporary artists incorporate AI as a co-creation tool and call on legislators to protect the intellectual property of their works created with the help of AI, other members of the creative community perceive their work to be at risk and call for a legal framework to preserve their business model.

In the next two years, EU member states will have to incorporate the AIA (Artificial Intelligence Act) into their national legislation. Is there consensus among the artistic community? Is intellectual property law ready to incorporate the major revolution that AI represents for artists?

This session will explain how artists co-create with AI and how courts in Europe and North America are positioning themselves in cases involving recognition of authorship and the use of copyrighted works to train algorithms. It also proposes some radical regulatory changes that may be necessary to respond to this paradigm shift in creation.

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