Video game lawyer Haley MacLean, speaking on the MinnMax podcast, outlines key legal concerns around Unreal Engine 6's planned native generative AI integration. The core issue is that AI-generated content cannot be copyrighted under current legal systems worldwide, which require human authorship. This creates risks around reusing AI-generated assets across multiple games and opens the door for bad-faith publishers to exploit developers — for example, by withdrawing from development contracts when AI-generated assets are involved and cannot be properly licensed.
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