#aiauthorship — Public Fediverse posts

'The Afterlife of the AI Author':

http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2025/1/22/the-afterlife-of-the-ai-author.html

In 'The Death of the AI Author', Carys Craig and Ian Kerr endeavor to provide an ontological exploration of 'what an #author must be' by moving away from the figure of the romantic authorial self as rights-bearing legal subject. This figure, they argue, is a 'mythic' ideological construct that is also underpinned by legal and philosophical #liberalism. And, like liberalism, the #romantic author lies at the heart of both copyright doctrine and contemporary ideas of #AIauthorship too. According to Craig and Kerr, AI should not be 'treated as special-purpose #human beings' producing work-for-hire; nor should it be mischaracterized as a radically individualized creative entity capable of being the 'sole creator and master' of a text...

#art #genai #copyright #relationalOntologies #law #humanities #philosophy

🤔How does #AI influence perceptions of authorship and ownership?

💡We found an "AI ghostwriter effect" in our study in #TOCHI here: https://lnkd.in/dq_h_zUZ

with @fionadraxler, Anna Werner, @florianlehmann, Matthias Hoppe, Albrecht Schmidt, @robin_welsch

#CHI #HCI #IUI #AIAuthorship #ChatGPT