The authors do not work for, seek the advice of, personal shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that may profit from this text, and have disclosed no related affiliations beyond their educational appointment. University of Portsmouth supplies funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The AI chatbot ChatGPT produces content that can appear to have been created by a human. There are numerous proposed makes use of for the expertise, however its spectacular capabilities elevate essential questions about possession of the content material. UK legislation has a definition for computer-generated works. Under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 they are “generated by laptop in circumstances such that there isn't a human creator of the work”. The legislation suggests content generated by an artificial intelligence (AI) will be protected by copyright. However, the unique sources of solutions generated by AI chatbots may be tough to hint - and they could embrace copyrighted works.