Issued also in French under title: Consultation sur le droit d'auteur à l'ère de l'intelligence artificielle générative. Cover title.

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Recently, a major shift occurred in the digital marketplace with the proliferation and massive public use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems. These systems can generate novel creative content in a wide variety of forms and even of quality comparable to works created by talented human artists. This includes the generation of text (e.g., ChatGPT), images (e.g., DALL-E), and music (e.g., MusicGen), often prompted by short instructions from users.Footnote1 Generative AI systems operate using models trained on vast datasets of text, images, or other data. These models build a representation of patterns identified in the training data using various machine-learning techniques.