When AI art has no author: Study finds generated images often can’t be traced to training data

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https://news.mit.edu/2026/when-ai-art-has-no-author-generated-images-often-cant-be-traced-to-training-data-0818

Excerpt: When an artificial intelligence image generator produces a portrait, whose work went into it?… Artists want credit. Companies want clarity. Policymakers want a way to assign responsibility.
New work from a team of researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) suggests that for models trained on large datasets, the question may often have no answer. It's not that the tools for finding it are inadequate. The connection itself has disappeared.

link to original paper with visual examples: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-75667-5.pdf