Rethinking Intellectual Property Law in an Era of Generative AI

Large-language models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google’s PaLM can be used to generate new written content in the style of any previous author. Diffusion models like those used by OpenAI’s DALL-E 3, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney can create new art in the style of a specific artist. Music generating and voice cloning systems enable the replication by artificial intelligence of the musical style of existing artists. These advances in generative AI raise at least three issues central to the fu