2025-08-25
8 分钟NPR. This is The Indicator from Planet Money.
I'm Waylon Wong.
You've probably heard about all the lawsuits against AI companies by groups of writers,
The New York Times, and Getty Images.
They've all alleged the big AI firms violated their copyright by scraping up their material to train AI systems.
But there's another issue at hand, too.
And joining me to talk about that today is Emma Jacobs.
Welcome.
Hi. Hi, Emma.
And you are a reporter in beautiful Montreal, Canada.
I am.
Thank you for having me.
And that other copyright issue being raised by generative AI tools like ChatGPT and DALI is who owns the stuff they produce?
Or even more complicated, Waylon,
what if you use ChatGPT to partly create something and then a human creates the rest?
Is it eligible for copyright?
And if so, who holds it?
You are breaking my brain, Emma.
So today on the show,
we look at these issues through the story of one guy who mashed up a photo he created with Van Gogh's Starry Night.