There was a robot outside my hotel room door last night.
It was about the size of R2D2, and its function was to vacuum the corridor carpet. As far as I could tell, and I watched it for a while, it missed almost all of the perimeters, and was not precise in its route to and fro between the walls.
I was tempted to see if it was as specially aware as a Tesla (for instance) and to place objects of various sizes in its path, such as myself, but I refrained.
I went for a walk on the beach, which took about three quarters of an hour. Upon my return, the bot was at a standstill in the middle of the corridor, about 3 doors (literally) down from where it had been when I stopped watching it. Now, it could have gorged itself on sandy grit and filled its bag... but it did not appear to have been able to summon maintenance.
SFWA has the preliminary results of asking writers for links to their opinions on their own blogs about AI and bots.
Meanwhile, it is alleged that bots are causing mayhem in the concert arena. Not only are bots buying up all the best tickets, and then making them available for resale at elevated prices, but perhaps bots are selling people the right to buy a ticket in the future.
Bots don't have consciences, and presumably, if a bot breaks the law, what deterrent would deter a bot?
There is a very interesting suggestion for the State of Georgia involving resale royalties on resold concert tickets. It's basically every so slightly scalping the scalpers!
The scalper scalped makes me think of Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus, which is off topic in the extreme.
Legal blogger Zach Lewis for Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC reports on the copyright registration of a comic book containing AI generated images, and the subsequent stripping of the copyright for the AI-generatedd images.
IMHO, the most important take-away for authors is this:
Creators using AI in any capacity to generate content—including images, videos, music, code, scripts, books, games, and beyond—should endeavor to understand how the specific technology works and what rights they may or may not have in the final product.
This FKKS article might be very important for authors who are considering using AI for the first draft of a work, especially if they might post on social media about what they are doing.
Joseph C. Gratz of Morrison & Forester LLP discusses the same problem with the mid journey AI tool with eye-opening emphasis on what is understood by "a modicum of creativity" (which latter is a prerequisite for a work to be copyrightable), and what is necessary for an author to qualify as "a master mind" of the work.
All the best,
Rowena Cherry
SPACE SNARK™
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