Tag: #ai

A Case Study: George Carlin, Artificial Intelligence and the Right of Publicity

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Carolyn Wimbly Martin, Sara Etemad-Moghadam and Ella Sands
Copyright Law + Entertainment, Culture and the Arts + Privacy, Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity

In January 2024 Dudesy, an AI-assisted podcast, released a new hourlong special titled “George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead,” featuring a version of the late comedian George Carlin (“Carlin”) allegedly generated by artificial intelligence (“AI”). Dudesy is a comedy podcast written, created and controlled by AI, and is hosted by “Mad TV” alum Will Sasso […]

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Deepfakes in Litigation

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Carolyn Wimbly Martin and Sara Etemad-Moghadam
Privacy, Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity

Deepfake technology uses artificial intelligence (“AI”), specifically “deep” learning, to create realistic videos, images and audio of fabricated events. Deepfakes have already found their way into social media, the entertainment industry, the political landscape and are now beginning to impact legal disputes. AI poses the risks that parties could intentionally fabricate evidence or unknowingly believe […]

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Deepfakes and the 2024 Election

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Carolyn Wimbly Martin and Sara Etemad-Moghadam
Internet and Social Media

In March 2023, a photograph of Pope Francis showed him uncharacteristically fashionable in a long white cinched puffer coat. That same month, photographs of former President Trump being tackled by New York City police officers circulated on Twitter, attracting five million views. If these events seem implausible, or you’re surprised that they didn’t make major […]

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The Writers Guild of America Strike, the Creative Industry and Artificial Intelligence

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Carolyn Wimbly Martin and Dana Sussman
Copyright Law + Entertainment, Culture and the Arts + Privacy, Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity

Update: On June 4, 2023, the Directors Guild of America (“DGA”) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (“AMPTP”) reached a tentative agreement, with ratification scheduled for June 6. AMPTP and the DGA have agreed that AI is not a person and therefore cannot be used to replace the duties performed by DGA […]

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Artists Use Their Media to Voice Concerns About Privacy Intrusions

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Susan J. Lutzker
Entertainment, Culture and the Arts + Privacy, Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity

Artists are joining the conversation about privacy intrusions from drones and other surveillance mechanisms. A fiberglass sculpture of a U.S. military drone is now hovering 25 feet above New York’s iconic High Line. The sculpture is a commissioned work for the High Line Plinth. Modeled after London’s Trafalgar Square Fourth Plinth, the project is intended to […]

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AI and Posthumous Digital Personas

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Susan J. Lutzker
Privacy, Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity

Kazuo Ishiguro’s newest book, Klara and the Sun, is a work of fiction, but barely so. Klara is an AF, or artificial friend. Spoiler alert — her purpose is to study her owner so intensely that she can not only learn her habits and perform her activities but take on personality characteristics to the point […]

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EU Proposes Artificial Intelligence Regulations: What Does This Mean for the U.S.?

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Carolyn Wimbly Martin and Ethan Barr
Privacy, Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity

On Wednesday, April 21, the European Union (EU) officially set forth the “Proposal for a Regulation laying down harmonized rules on artificial intelligence,” more commonly referred to as the Artificial Intelligence Act (hereinafter, “the Regulation”). This set of rules would govern the use of artificial intelligence (AI) within the jurisdiction of the EU. The Regulation […]

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