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Could an Artificial Intelligence be a Ghostwriter?


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1 Department of Economic Law and Labor Law at the Institute of Law, Cracow University of Economics, ul. Rakowicka 27, 31-510 Krakow,, Poland

Advanced technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, have beenpushing nowadays societies toward new ethical and legal challenges, including copyright law dilemmas.The contemporarydevelopment of innovativemachinesand cognitive technologies raisesthe need to rethink basic concepts such as ownership and accountability.In light of the rules of copyright law, this paper argues that innovative algorithms, such as GPT-3 (an autoregressive language model developed by Open AI to produce human-like text via deep learning), could be considered a modern form of ghostwriting brought forward by the Third Industrial Revolution, as defined by Jeremy Rifkin. The phenomenon of ghostwriting has beennotorioussinceantiquity.Althoughghostwritingis also quitepervasive today, neither national nor international legal systems have yet fully regulated it. Based on the assumption that AI systems operate likeghostwriters in terms of their creativity, this paperasks whether AI’s creationshould be subject to copyright regulations soon, and if so, to what extent.
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Aleksandra Nowak-Gruca
Department of Economic Law and Labor Law at the Institute of Law, Cracow University of Economics, ul. Rakowicka 27, 31-510 Krakow,, Poland

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Advanced technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, have beenpushing nowadays societies toward new ethical and legal challenges, including copyright law dilemmas.The contemporarydevelopment of innovativemachinesand cognitive technologies raisesthe need to rethink basic concepts such as ownership and accountability.In light of the rules of copyright law, this paper argues that innovative algorithms, such as GPT-3 (an autoregressive language model developed by Open AI to produce human-like text via deep learning), could be considered a modern form of ghostwriting brought forward by the Third Industrial Revolution, as defined by Jeremy Rifkin. The phenomenon of ghostwriting has beennotorioussinceantiquity.Althoughghostwritingis also quitepervasive today, neither national nor international legal systems have yet fully regulated it. Based on the assumption that AI systems operate likeghostwriters in terms of their creativity, this paperasks whether AI’s creationshould be subject to copyright regulations soon, and if so, to what extent.