Describe Around It: How AI Challenges Hollywood’s IP Libraries Audrey Henson · Follow 4 min read · Just now In elementary school, I often struggled with vocabulary tests, as defining words without using the word itself seemed impossible. Apparently describing a circle as “circular” wasn’t particularly helpful. But how does someone describe the color blue to someone who has never seen blue before? Fast forward to today, and this very exercise has taken on a new, unsettling significance in the age of generative AI. AI tools like Sora have turned this type of descriptive work into both a creative opportunity and a serious threat. I call this phenomenon ‘Describe Around It’: the ability to recreate something “well-known” not by naming it outright but by describing it so well that […]
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