Who Owns SpongeBob? AI Shakes Hollywood’s Creative Foundation

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>instructed an AI tool called DALL-E to show SpongeBob, one of Paramount’s iconic characters, flying a plane.

An image of the rectangular cartoon star doing just that appeared on a large TV screen,

>The courts are in the early stages of testing how copyright law applies to AI models and the work they generate.

In February, Getty Images sued Stability AI, a company that creates images based on text queries.

Stability AI said it doesn’t comment on pending litigation.