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When AI art has no author: Study finds generated images often can’t be traced to training data
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When an artificial intelligence image generator produces a portrait, whose work went into it? The question sits at the center of lawsuits, licensing deals, and proposed regulations worldwide. Artists want credit. Companies want clarity. Policymakers want a way to assign responsibility. New work from a team of researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) suggests that for models trained on large datasets, the question may often have no answer. It's not that the tools for finding it are inadequate. The connection itself has disappeared. The scientists identified…
MIT News · 18 Aug 2026 · 18:35 CESTRead story →Original ↗
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