(Focus on Boao) Are AI works protected by intellectual property rights? Expert Boao answers questions
BOAO, March 3 (ZXS) -- The rapid development of cutting-edge technologies such as a new generation of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has brought a series of complex problems to the intellectual property system. Are AI works protected by intellectual property rights? This is a common question for many people. On the 30th, government officials, scholars and business leaders discussed at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 30.
A new generation of artificial intelligence represented by ChatGPT, writing articles, coding code, generating pictures... He has produced a lot of eye-catching works. The copyright of such AI products is a topic of concern for all parties.
"There is some truth in suggesting that the creations of AI should belong to AI itself." Song Hefa, vice dean of the School of Intellectual Property at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, noted that some artificial intelligence can generate papers, and if there are no restrictions on this practice and its copyright, it is not a problem to "brush" a thousand papers a year. In addition, the "virtual human" issue of artificial intelligence and the patent protection of digital technology need to be further explored.
"At the current level of technology, the process of generating AI artifacts is still largely controlled by creators, and AI is an auxiliary tool for human creation." In the view of Du Lan, senior vice president of iFLYTEK Co., Ltd., artificial intelligence cannot take responsibility without independent awareness, let alone understand the incentive role of copyright law, so copyright cannot be granted to artificial intelligence, but to new humans who have mastered artificial intelligence.
Duran believes that intellectual property protection needs to focus on the feeding process of artificial intelligence. A mature artificial intelligence system, based on feeding a large amount of human-produced data, how to protect the interests of copyright holders such as writers, painters, musicians and so on when collecting feeding data. On the other hand, requiring every article, every book, and every painting to be consented to enter the database is too expensive to execute for today's massive data training volumes.
"The healthy development of the digital economy is inseparable from the support of the basic system, and only through good system design can we open up the full cycle and chain of data production, processing, use and circulation." The property rights system for data is crucial. Shen Changyu, director of the State Intellectual Property Office of China, said that China is currently working hard to explore a data intellectual property protection system that suits its national conditions.
Shen Changyu revealed that the system will have four "adequate" characteristics, namely, full consideration of data security, public interest and personal privacy; Fully grasp the unique attributes of data and the objective laws of the property rights system; Fully respect the creative labor and financial investment of data processing; Give full play to the important role of data in promoting industrial digital transformation and high-quality economic development. (End)