And while human efforts to train computers to produce art have been around since the 1970s, this time it’s different. Early machine generated works heavily relied on the creative input of the programmer. The machine was simply a tool for the artist, much like a musical instrument or a paint brush. This is no longer true. Machine learning software, a subset of AI, can generate autonomous systems capable of learning without specific human programming.
Programmers may still define certain parameters, but the artistic work is created entirely by the programme through its a neural network: a process much like the thought processes of humans. When applied to music and literary works, AI machines make entirely independent decisions in its output. Doubtless, this creates wider implications of ownership and infringement under copyright law.
Source: Barandbench
