Lawsuits against AI Content Growing Exponentially
Lawsuits against AI-generated content are growing exponentially around the world. The latest lawsuit against AI-generated content- in this case- Deepfakes- was filed by Italy’s Prime Minister, Georgia Meloni, who has sued a father-and-son team for creating and proliferating sexually explicit, pornographic content of the Italian premier.
Meloni has filed a lawsuit at a court in Rome, seeking Euro 100,000 in damages from these culprits. Italian police, using sophisticated tracking software and devices had tracked down the two culprits- said to be a 40-year-old man and his 73-year-old father for creating and uploading Meloni’s Deepfakes on various online platforms. Meloni’s legal team said, the Italian Prime Minister.
Incidentally, Georgia Meloni is the first woman to become the Prime Minister of Italy.
This isn’t the first incidence of celebrities or prominent personalities filing lawsuits against Deepfake creators. In India, cine star Anil Kapoor had filed criminal proceedings against as many as 16 persons for illegally using his voice clips for audio to cheat people. A New Delhi court ruled in favour of Anil Kapoor.
In the US, Stability, Midjourney.ai and DeviantArt faced lawsuits over alleged copyright infringements while training their AI models on works of certain artists, authors and designers. Additionally, Getty’s Images had dragged Stability AI to court over violating copyrights and metadata of millions of images and photos that Getty owns.
As though these are less, author Paul Trembley and Mona Awad sued OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT-3 for alleged copyright violation of over 300,000 books by using their contents to train its AI models. OpenAI was also taken to court by the New York Times for illegal use of its news reports and other data.
The legal teams of US presidential hopefuls, Donald Trump and Joe Biden are also likely to consider legal actions over fake audio, videos and photos that were generated using AI tools. The Federal Communications Commission has meanwhile banned the use of AI-generated robocalls for election purposes in the US. Similar legal actions are being taken in India, Indonesia and other countries that will see general elections this year.
