https://www.bentley.edu/news/popular-brands-had-their-tradem...
https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=97733261&caseType=SERIAL_...
(Interestingly enough there's a Chinese ecig/vape company that also looking to trademark ChatGPT.)
Are there any legal protections available to me in this regard?
AI's do not qualify as entities that can claim copy rights or protections, which ironically makes them not qualify as entities that can infringe copy rights or protections either.
And they fully considered the rights of ever bit of copyrighted material they consumed. It's not their fault random people on the internet don't understand what those rights are.
Yes, they considered and decided that they are big enough to violate and do what they want, since they aren't violating rights of other big entities, just of nobodies.
So, while I can point to https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
and quote from it:
"""
17 Infringement of copyright by copying
…
(2) Copying in relation to a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work means reproducing the work in any material form.
This includes storing the work in any medium by electronic means.
(3) In relation to an artistic work copying includes the making of a copy in three dimensions of a two-dimensional work and the making of a copy in two dimensions of a three-dimensional work.
(4) Copying in relation to a film or broadcast includes making a photograph of the whole or any substantial part of any image forming part of the film or broadcast.
…
(6) Copying in relation to any description of work includes the making of copies which are transient or are incidental to some other use of the work.
"""
I'm not even remotely a lawyer, so I don't know if this is as relevant as it appears.
But it does appear relevant.