🇷🇺 Russian, 11 October 2026, AI-generated content
Russian AI-generated novel sparks debate over authorship and royalties
A novel continuing Nikolai Gogol's 'Dead Souls' has been published, raising questions about authorship and intellectual property rights.
The novel was created by a team of developers who trained a neural network on Gogol’s works, as well as those of other Russian classics, to generate new content in a similar style.
The project has sparked a polarized reaction, with some seeing it as a cultural breakthrough and others as a marketing stunt.
Experts are divided on the issue of authorship, with some arguing that the neural network is simply an instrument used by humans to create a new work.