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If AI Agents Catch On, Expect The Legacy Copyright Industry To Turn Them Against You
One of the many interesting aspects of the new wave of artificial intelligence systems is that with them, copyright has moved from the fringe to center stage. There are continuing debates about wha…
over the past couple of years I’ve been watching the UK and EU debate new laws that would mandate automated “scanning” of private, encrypted messages. It does not matter if your model is running locally, or if it uses trusted cloud hardware — once a sufficiently-powerful general-purpose agent has been deployed on your phone, the only question that remains is who is given access to talk to it. Agentic AI could search through a person’s files for unauthorized copyright material – perhaps even contacting databases over the Internet to check whether a license is in place.
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