Can Writers Use AI To Write Novels Legally (Lawyer Tony Iliakostas)

Will there be legal implications to using artificial intelligence to write novels? Let's talk to Entertainment and IP Lawyer Tony Iliakostas!

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[katrinamillings]

I mean it probably depends on how you use it. If you're just having ChatGPT spit out some text to see different scenarios of where your story can go for inspiration, but you write the text in your book yourself, that's not plagiarism. Most any plot a writer comes up with has been done hundreds of times before. I could write a story about 3 witches. It doesn't mean I'm plagiarizing Charmed or committing copyright infringement. It's when it's word for word the same that I could see issues.

[EcoExist-qsue]

If I use original content from my novel and input it into chatgpt and ask them to vary the sentence structure without changing the words, would I be able to publish it later? Alternatively, if I were to show the chatgpt my content and ask for its opinion, and it suggests minor revisions such as adding a few commas or breaking up a sentence, would I be able to publish the revised version?

[ElenaHorlau]

Thank you very much, this is an interesting video! I'm currently curious in how AI can help with research for university papers etc. I haven't tried it yet but what happens when you ask an AI like GTP to cite it's sources?

[mikeha]

just as a test I asked chatGPT to quote me the first sentence of a random chapter of Brandon Sanderson's "The Way of Kings". It can quote me the first sentence of just about any chapter, does that prove that chatGPT has access to copyrighted works and thus might use them to write fiction if asked?

[DreamWick]

What if I write the story and give it what I wrote to rewrite it better. Is that legal?

[GrayOperative]

Ever hear of "ghost writers"?
John Grisham?

[KenWheelerWhistler]

So, is it okay for me to write a story, have the AI help check for my grammar, and use certain words for certain places?

[eggsalts]

Why would people be able to use it in their business but we couldn’t claim the writing from it? Seems a little hypocritical. They aren’t employing it and their taking credit (wealth) from the ai as well.

[ragathielcross]

with all that being said what happened to the old rule of as long as you dont use direct copy of material and change at least 30% of the concept causes it to be a brand new item? i could see those who abuse AI to run into those issues BUT if a writter is creating all their content their own and their just using AI to order things around....it would be insane to think someone will try to sue. I mean its one thing to see a literal mark on a product that shows owner ship vs someone saying well in part of your book there was a scene with a bully and their fight and just feels like harry potter so we will sue. I mean if you think about it that only means George Lucas should actually sue JK Rowling since his Jedi academy is to similar to hogwarts in training its chosen students to use their powers. The good side teaches not to abuse the force and stay away from certain technique where as in harry potter there are the forbidden curses, there are force wielders and people who cant its something your born with, in harry potter magic is the same way, in starwars its also a very politcal driven story about the darkside wanting to reform society and govenrment into its own version of what it sees as a good society which is the exact same view as voldermort. The main characters are luke han and leiha where in harry potter its harry ron and hermoine. The list goes on and on with TONS not just 1 thing that line up to close and i havent really heard about george lucas suing the crap out of her yet seeing as his works predate harry potter by a long shot. Art is one thing but writting, unless you just straight up copy someone i see it to be a little dumb to sue based off of vague similarities as in this day and age there is no such thing as a 100% original concept as we pull our original ideas from inspiration of other things which you will always see that influence. Just makes this all even more hard to follow or understand.

[hannahanderson]

I know people who used AI to generate a book they self published, personally I think it's cheating to publish a work that is not their own to generate money off of it. It is morally wrong IMO.

[chumnutzly]

Can't you just use a plagiarism detector?