Generative AI models can now create replicas of trademarked characters with prompts as simple as 'videogame Italian'

• AI researchers studied whether generative AI models can plagiarize images.
• They found certain visual models generated trademarked characters with brief or indirect prompts.
• For example, the models produced almost exact images of Simpsons and Star Wars characters.

Generating a copyright lawsuit could be as easy as typing something akin to a game show prompt into an AI.