It is often stated that the law lags behind technology. In the case of AI related difficulties, however, the damages related to the use of AI is not so revolutionary that all existing legal precepts must be abandoned and replaced with new legal principles or require completely new laws.

Copyright

Consider some typical examples of AI related legal difficulties. First, there is AI-related copyright difficulties such as found in the recent case, Andersen v. Stability AI Ltd., 23-cv-00201-WHO (2023), which related to direct copyright infringement, vicarious copyright infringement and violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). In Andersen, a group of artists sued the creator of an AI software program for copying copyrighted images without permission and using the images to train an AI.