11/19/2024

Avoid Legal Pitfalls and Risks in Workplace Use of Artificial Intelligence

Employees' use of AI is on the rise

Recent surveys indicate the widespread use of generative AI (artificial intelligence) and other AI tools by employees in the workplace. This is hardly surprising, given the astonishing level of efficiencies that AI tools offer for content generation, predictions recommendations and a seemingly endless number of other outcomes.

Yet, few employers have adopted formal AI workplace policies that are needed to properly train employees on the safe adoption and use of AI tools and mitigate a growing list of material security, accuracy, privacy, intellectual property and other legal and operational risks.

Some of those risks have recently made headline news in the context of media companies, authors, artists and celebrities who have sued generative AI platforms in federal court for alleged copyright infringement. For example, The New York Times has sued the creators of ChatGPT and other popular AI platforms, over copyright issues associated with its articles. The Authors Guild, on behalf of its author-members, and a number of authors like John Grisham, have likewise sued OpenAI, claiming that their materials have been taken by OpenAI without consent. In addition, several visual artists have filed a putative class action lawsuit against AI companies, on behalf of themselves and other artists, alleging that those companies have used images of their artwork, registered with the U.S. Copyright Office, in the development of AI image generators.

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