AI Glossary

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Statutory Damages

A statutorily defined range of compensation for copyright infringement, independent of proven actual damage; in cases of mass infringement it can reach astronomical sums and creates an incentive to settle.

Strict Liability

Liability for damage arising regardless of fault, based on the mere occurrence of a harmful outcome; under consideration for the operation of risky AI systems.

Structured Output

A mode in which a model returns a response in a predefined format (e.g., JSON) so that it can be automatically processed by other systems.

Style Mimicking

Generating content that imitates the distinctive creative style of a particular author or artist; this raises both legal and ethical questions.

Style Mimicry

The use of AI to imitate the characteristic creative style of a particular author or artist, which gives rise to disputes over personality rights and unfair competition.

Style Transfer

A technology that enables transferring the visual or artistic style of one work onto another.

Subliminal Manipulation

The use of techniques that operate beyond a person's conscious perception with the aim of influencing their behavior.

Substantial Modification of an AI System

A substantial modification of an AI system after it has been placed on the market, which may affect compliance with requirements and require a new assessment.

Suno and Udio (Disputes and Settlements)

The music AI services Suno and Udio faced lawsuits from the music industry for training on copyrighted recordings. Warner Music subsequently settled the disputes and announced the launch of joint platforms for music creation.

Sunset / Reassessment of the List of Prohibited Practices

A mechanism under which the Commission periodically reviews and may update the list of prohibited practices in line with the development of technologies and risks.

Supervised Learning

Machine learning on data provided with correct answers, from which the model learns to predict outputs for new data.

Synthetic Actor

An artificially created digital character appearing in audiovisual content in place of a real actor.

Synthetic Content

Text, images, audio, or video created by artificial intelligence without directly capturing reality.

Synthetic Data

Artificially created data that mimics the properties of real data.

Synthetic Data Generation

The creation of artificial data that mimics the properties of real data, used for training when data is scarce or to protect privacy.

Synthetic Dataset

A set of artificially generated data (often by the model itself) used for training or testing instead of real data.

Synthetic Media

Content created or substantially modified by artificial intelligence.

System Prompt

A hidden instruction defining the rules and behavior of an AI system.

System Vulnerability

A weakness that can be exploited to compromise the security of a system.

Systemic Risk

A risk arising from the most capable models that may manifest at scale across the value chain, for example in cybersecurity, disinformation or misuse.