Terminology: AI and the Law

On the principle that you don’t understand something until you can explain it to someone else, we’re compiling our definitions for “AI” terms in entertainment and the law into a public glossary.

It provides a rough narrative for what ‘AI’ currently means in film & TV production, as well as more generally. It’s a work in progress providing:

• non-technical descriptions of useful terms

• context on how terms are used

• notes on issues around misuse and common misunderstandings

We want to understand things ourselves in sufficient detail that we can confidently comprehend their implications, critique them as concepts, and discuss them usefully with our team, our partners and customers, and the world at large.

So we are publishing our definitions here, currently totalling 154 entries (29 legal terms and 125 technical terms).

Feel free to use and download them. And tell us if you spot errors or omissions.

We hope you find them useful.

Please let us know in these forms any terms you would add, and how you would change any definitions.