arXiv:2501.16120econ.EMcs.LG2025-01被引 2

用神经网络分析字体视觉相似性,揭示版权如何影响创意产品竞争与消费者福利。

Copyright and Competition: Estimating Supply and Demand with Unstructured Data

  • 通过神经网络嵌入量化字体视觉特征,匹配人类感知
  • 发现视觉空间中竞争具有局部性,版权约束影响产品定位
  • 证明版权可提升消费者福利,最优政策依赖技术成本下降程度

我们研究生成式人工智能等降低生产成本的技术背景下,版权对创意产业竞争与福利的影响。创意产品常包含图像、文本等高维复杂非结构化属性。本文以全球最大的字体交易平台数据为基础,构建神经网络嵌入以量化视觉特征,并在人类感知一致的框架下衡量视觉相似性。空间回归与事件研究分析表明,竞争在视觉特征空间中具有局部性。基于此,我们建立融合嵌入的供需结构模型,刻画版权约束下的产品定位。估计结果揭示消费者设计偏好异质性及生产者低成本模仿优势。反事实分析显示,版权保护可通过鼓励产品迁移提升消费者福利,且最优政策取决于版权与成本降低技术的交互作用。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

We study the competitive and welfare effects of copyright in creative industries in the face of cost-reducing technologies such as generative artificial intelligence. Creative products often feature unstructured attributes (e.g., images and text) that are complex and high-dimensional. To address this challenge, we study a stylized design product -- fonts -- using data from the world's largest font marketplace. We construct neural network embeddings to quantify unstructured attributes and measure visual similarity in a manner consistent with human perception. Spatial regression and event-study analyses demonstrate that competition is local in the visual characteristics space. Building on this evidence, we develop a structural model of supply and demand that incorporates embeddings and captures product positioning under copyright-based similarity constraints. Our estimates reveal consumers' heterogeneous design preferences and producers' cost-effective mimicry advantages. Counterfactual analyses show that copyright protection can raise consumer welfare by encouraging product relocation, and that the optimal policy depends on the interaction between copyright and cost-reducing technologies.

版权经济生成式AI视觉相似性结构模型

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