“Converging Realms” Conference
On Friday, September 27, 2024, the last day of the international conference “Converging Realms: Law, Technology, and Society in the Age of Ethical and Multi-Agent AI” took place. Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič took part in the 4th panel entitled Artificial Intelligence+Research.
As a copyright expert and head of the Institute for Open Data and Intellectual Property ODIPI, and national and regional coordinator of Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21), Maja attended a panel discussing research and artificial intelligence (AI+research). She spoke mainly about the need to empower researchers with a predictable legal environment for their work, and pointed out that the field of research needs a special Digital Knowledge Act, which would regulate issues, especially in the field of copyright law, specifically for research and science.
She emphasized that good generative artificial intelligence needs good data. And that we need to make well-considered decisions, which we have to make as humanity, so that we can “seize” opportunities and prevent risks. Two human qualities can hinder us in this: greed and the mistaken belief that the problem is not happening to us personally.
Good artificial intelligence that will serve people needs good “data”, including copyrighted works. Both Slovenia and Poland are building a large language model, and both societies are facing a major challenge. Makers of generative AI are taking advantage of whatever resources they can grab. How to establish a system so that good artificial intelligence can be built in the future, which will work for the good of people and the planet, for which a lot of high-quality “data” is needed. Maja has been intensively dealing with this area from a copyright perspective since 2018, and for the past four years she has even co-chaired the Working Group on Data Governance for Artificial Intelligence in GPAI 1.0.
The District Court of Hamburg ruled in the case of Kneschke v. LAION e.V. that LAION did not infringe the copyright of photographer Kneschke, as the use of his photograph was covered by the exception for text and data mining (TDM) for scientific purposes.
“Can copyright bring artificial intelligence to its knees? Which other circumstances may cause that the “making” of generative AI can dramatically change in the (near) future. This short paper presents potential challenges that copyright poses to the training of the machines on large amount of data. Different jurisdictions address these issues differently. In the USA the legality of these activities is tested in several court cases. Do gentlemen’s agreements and pragmatic symbiosis known from the “search engines business model” provide sufficient basis and/or incentive for the business model of “making” generative AI business model as well?
On Friday, September 27, 2024, the last day of the international conference “Converging Realms: Law, Technology, and Society in the Age of Ethical and Multi-Agent AI” took place. Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič took part in the 4th panel entitled Artificial Intelligence+Research.