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Art is more than recombining elements: Why Nitin Nohria's essay on copyrighting gen AI outputs is flawed
Nitin Nohria's essay in MIT Technology Review 'AI copyright anxiety will hold back creativity' argues copyright law should not hold AI to a different standard than human artists and that gen AI’s recombination of existing material is the same as creative processes of renowned artists. Flaws in the essay are that creative processes of renowned artists are different from A, and it mischaracterizes AI’s capabilities, and it neglects factors distinguishing human art from AI-gener

Sheelagh Caygill
Jun 228 min read
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OpenAI's 'creative' writing vs. human art: A viral story sparks debate
The world of creative writing was the centre of focus in March 2025 when ChatGPT's Sam Altman posted on X.com that OpenAI trained a new model that, he said, is good at creative writing and he was "struck" by what its short story called 'A Machine-Shape. On Creative Writing analyzes this AI short story, looks at the enthusiasm from fans of artificial intelligence, where lines were plagiarised, and then seeks English Professor Sam Waterman's views on the OpenAI short story.

Sheelagh Caygill
May 27 min read
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Beyond Meta's piracy: How authors can get books off piracy sites and stop work being used in AI training
How authors writers can check if their book was used in gen AI training; steps to get books removed from pirated-books platforms and sites.

Sheelagh Caygill
Mar 218 min read
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