AI helps uncover IP theft, but is your own IP training AI for free?

AI may potentially come in handy at identifying plagiarism and 'problematic' images in research, and yet creators themselves aren't receiving anything when AI trains itself off their content. — Photo: Philipp von Ditfurth/dpa

LONDON: Artificial intelligence applications are turning out to be a help to and a hindrance for artists, photographers, scientists and writers, whose intellectual property (IP) can be both enhanced and utilised by AI.

Sholto David, a biologist based in Britain, has run tests that suggest AI could be two to three times faster than humans when it comes to finding copied or doctored images in research papers.