Katrina Geddes, ‘Engineering Semiotic Democracy’, FIU Law Review (forthcoming 2026), available at SSRN (14 June 2024). Artificial intelligence platforms justify their unauthorized reproduction of copyrighted training data on the expansive creative capacities that their models allow. They argue that generative AI is a ‘radically transformational tool for creators of many kinds … which enables new expression and innovation to flourish’. In her new paper, ‘Engineering Semiotic Democracy’, Katrina Geddes sets out to hold AI firms’ feet to the fire. To motivate the intervention, Geddes reports asking ChatGPT to produce an image of Captain America as a queer Black man from Brooklyn. The platform refused the request as a violation of its content policy that prohibits generating certain copyrighted characters … (more)
[Christopher J Buccafus, JOTWELL, 28 July 2026]
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