Artificial intelligence artist, copyright is a problem

A Rembrandt as if he had painted it, a poem created following the neural networks of an individual, a portrait created with an algorithm: more and more works of art created with the help of artificial intelligence. However, compositions on which it is not clear who owns the copyright. Alina Yordanova Trapova, from Bocconi University in Milan, will be looking for an answer, awarded for her project on the subject at the conference on law and artificial intelligence organized by the University of Pavia.

"The project includes three workshops involving jurists, artists and computer scientists, to create and identify the human element in the machine learning process, which is currently very confusing," explains Yordanova to ANSA. In the meetings we will work to classify the creative processes, those in which the human role is clear from those in which it is not, and then develop a collaboration agreement after finding common points.

"In recent years, the examples of works of art created using artificial intelligence have increased, but it is not clear who the copyright belongs to in this case: to the artist, the computer scientist or the machine?", He adds Yordanova. An answer that the world of law has not yet managed to give. Hence his idea, for which he will be awarded on Friday in Pavia by the European Center for Law, Science and New Technologies (Eclt).

Among the most recent examples of works of art created with artificial intelligence there is the Next Rembrandt project, where the computer, after a precise study of the characteristics of his paintings, has created one as if he had painted it today Rembrandt ; or that of the artist Mario Klingemann, who with an installation of machines has used neural networks to generate an infinite series of portraits.

"If in the first case there is no problem of copyright because the works of Rembrandt are now in the public domain, for Klingemann it is yes. In the future there will be more and more works created by algorithms. For this reason it is important to establish - he concludes - what is inside the algorithm and what it does, to understand the role of the author "