If they’re thinking of making “style” something that can be copyrighted, then the effects on AI will be trivial compared to the general creative apocalypse as giant corporations lock everything down and go to war with each other.
That already happened.
Right now they’re using AI to generate everything then claim the output as IP. It’s just another tool for them to attack their competition.
If they’re thinking of making “style” something that can be copyrighted, then the effects on AI will be trivial compared to the general creative apocalypse as giant corporations lock everything down and go to war with each other.
Japan in general has weird copyright/patent laws. For example the whole palworld patent lawsuits.
Good news is it probably won’t affect people outside of Japan, except that it will stunt games/etc made in Japan.
That already happened. Right now they’re using AI to generate everything then claim the output as IP. It’s just another tool for them to attack their competition.
If this are the AI wars I was promised on every sci fi since the 70s, I’ll be very disappointed.