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mhajicek [soylentnews.org] writes:

"As neuroscientists struggle to demystify how the human brain converts what our eyes see into mental images, artificial intelligence (AI) has been getting better at mimicking that feat. A recent study, scheduled to be presented at an upcoming computer vision conference, demonstrates that AI can read brain scans and re-create largely realistic versions of images a person has seen. As this technology develops, researchers say, it could have numerous applications, from exploring how various animal species perceive the world to perhaps one day recording human dreams and aiding communication in people with paralysis."

https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-re-creates-what-people-see-reading-their-brain-scans [science.org]

I'm wondering how this sort of ability will effect copyright, in the long term, when it becomes possible to extract high-enough fidelity copies of media from people's brains, which they have observed before and remember. If someone views an image, listens to a song, or watches a movie, and then downloads a copy from their brain to share, is that copyright infringement? Is the copy in their head infringement? Will the law determine a percentage fidelity limit?

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