India, Dec. 12 -- When a piece of copyrighted code, a proprietary design, or a unique musical composition is fed into a Generative AI model for washing, the goal is to retain the core value and structure of the original work while subtly altering its metadata and stylistic features, enough to erase the ownership trail.

This algorithmic transformation creates a derivative work that is technically new yet functionally identical to the stolen IP.

For digital forensics and IP law, this constitues the single greatest challenge of the AI era; the traditional methods of proving theft, comparing files hashes or relying on easily removed metadata, are now completely obsolete.

The legal challenge is complex, creating an attribution gap that span...