Expression, Verification, and the Scarcity of Aesthetic Education: Reinterpreting Moral Rights in the Age of Generative AI
This paper argues that the denial of copyright and moral rights to works substantially shaped by human expressive judgment in generative AI systems produces two interrelated harms: the incentive to conceal AI involvement (“trace forgery”) and the proliferation of low-quality content (“flooding”). Drawing on R. G. Colli...