person
Reid Southen
Film concept artist; AI copyright litigation voice
Film concept artist whose collaboration with Gary Marcus on 'AI is a plagiarism machine' put image-model copyright litigation into the mainstream.
current Concept artist, Independent
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Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimesDocuments image-model memorisation and has become a public voice for artists in copyright litigation.
AI is a plagiarism machine. If you prompt it right, it regurgitates copyrighted training data.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.