OpenAI’s DALL-E has sparked similar copyright concerns related to artistic ownership, copyright infringement, and the contours of fair use. The program generates vivid digital images based on user descriptions written in plain English and is also trained on hundreds of millions of images across the internet, many of which are copyrighted.

“If you train the AI to make Picasso-like works, or Mondrian-like works, and it makes one that is sufficiently similar, that could be a copyright infringement claim,” said Mark Lemley, director of Stanford Law School’s Program in Law, Science and Technology.