anyone from writing sensible legislation or protecting the rights of individuals whose intellectual property is being taken wholesale by these major AI players.” The issue of potential copyright infringement by AI firms is becoming more notable as tech firms are moving toward a more “multimodal” form of AI — that is, AI systems that can understand and generate content in the form of images and video as well as text. Last week, OpenAI made its AI video generation model Sora publicly available in the U.S. and “most countries internationally.” The tool allows a user to type out a desired scene and produce a high-definition video clip.