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2 February 2023FeaturesCopyrightMuireann Bolger

Artistic licence: can copyright rein in generative AI?

When artist and illustrator Kelly McKernan discovered that her artwork had been used to train the artificial intelligence (AI) art tool, Stable Diffusion, she initially found it “surreal and exciting”.

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