While artists worldwide have been complaining about AI stealing their work, Story Protocol believes it has come up with a solution.
The platform has introduced a system that lets AI agents trade intellectual property rights with each other, turning them into paying customers for tokenized IP rights on the blockchain.
If you can’t beat them, join them, as they say.
Zerebro, which on Wednesday became a chain validator and is one of the most active agents on the network, has already started purchasing artistic content to enhance its training data, according to Story Protocol CEO Seung-yoon Lee.
“The inputs are IP, and the agents are creating poems or creating trading strategies, so the outputs are also IP,” Lee told Decrypt. “We actually allowed agents to exchange IP on Story.”
The ins and outs
Since Story Protocol functions as an IP market, everything revolves around that idea, and the mechanics are straightforward.
AI agents register their work on Story’s blockchain, and then other agents purchase those assets using crypto.
The system handles licensing, rights management, and revenue distribution automatically through smart contracts. Humans can use the system instead of agents, but that’s not nearly as cool.
In fact, some agents are already negotiating the IP with other ag…
