Legal Concerns with Generative AI Tools

June 6, 2023

A new article from Practical Law The Journal investigates how generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT present new legal issues in different practice areas, including labor and employment, intellectual property, commercial transactions, and data privacy and cybersecurity.

ChatGPT is the most well-known generative AI mechanism that uses a simple chatbot interface, allowing users to ask questions on any given topic and ChatGPT responds using dialogue-based artificial intelligence. While ChatGPT can provide profound responses to certain questions, legal experts have noted its responses to legal questions can be inaccurate. The rise of the use of ChatGPT and similar generative AI functions by the public and in practice has raised both legal and ethical questions in its applicability to legal practice.

The Practical Law article explores numerous key issues associated with generative AI including:

• Claiming copyright ownership of ChatGPT’s output and general copyright infringement risks of using generative AI.
• The risks for companies, employees, and employers when using ChatGPT, including data privacy concerns and potential bias in responses from generative AI.
• Applicable data privacy laws and regulations to the use of generative AI tools and potential security risks of artificial intelligence given the methods of data storage and general data collection.

To read the full article from Practical Law The Journal, ChatGPT and Generative AI: Key Legal Issues, click here.