Lawyer's 6-year-old son uses AI to build copyright infringement generator [View all]

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https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/03/ai_has_made_ip_violations/

Rights holders had better buckle up for years of legal wrangling, IP lawyer tells The Reg

You don't have to be smarter than a fifth grader (or even a first grader) to commit potential copyright infringement using AI tools. One IP attorney watched over the weekend as his young son built a bedtime story generator that used copyrighted characters without permission.

"When experimenting with Google's AI Studio over the weekend, my 6-year-old son had the idea to create a website that would tell stories and generate pictures of the story," US IP lawyer Jonathan Menkes, a partner at the Knobbe Martens law firm, explained in a blog post. "In less than 2 minutes, he created a fully interactive website, including the proposed name 'Bedtime Story Weaver.'"

All it took to get Menkes the younger to create his tool was a few basic prompts that were "so simple, even a six-year-old with zero coding experience" was able to create a web app asking users to provide a target age, theme, characters, an optional morale or lesson, learning objective, preferred story length, and tone, to get an instant AI-penned tale.

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This piece in The Register doesn't adequately convey the colossal amount of AI content that will be stepping on other IP. And it can not be blamed on a person/company, but a technology with no guardrails.