Singapore | DrewTech Chapter 13: Pitfalls of user-generated content

Before there were AI chatbots, there was the “internet hivemind” – the collective thoughts, opinions, essays, and the occasional unhinged rants of human actors on the internet. This resource could be tapped on for content generation, to get eyeballs on a site or to develop ideas. However, humans have legal rights which must be respected (unlike an AI chatbot, for now). As with an AI chatbot, content generated and used can expose an organization to potential civil liability. This article considers the risks arising from intellectual property rights, defamation risk, and compliance with correction and disabling requirements. 

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If you missed any of the chapters in our DrewTech series, you can read them below: 

1. Chapter 1: The Importance of an Exit Strategy in Tech Contracts
2. Chapter 2: Employees, technology and a legal hangover - bring your own problems?
3. Chapter 3: I host, you post, I get sued?
4. Chapter 4: Diabolus ex machina - Artificial (un)Intelligence and liability
5. Chapter 5: Bringing Hygiene Online - The MAS Notice on Cyber Hygiene
6. Chapter 6: Signing without signing – contactless contracts
7. Chapter 7: My Kingdom for a Horse – When your Systems are Held to Ransom
8. Chapter 8: New risks in new skins - Updates to the Guidelines on Risk Management Practices – Technology Risk
9. Chapter 9: Of blockchains and stumbling blocks
10. Chapter 10: Service by airdrop - no parachutes required
11. Chapter 11: Large language models and larger legal minefields
12. Chapter 12: Beset on all sides – liability for data breaches