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Everything Made By an AI Is In the Public Domain (doctorow.medium.com)
submitted 2 years ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The US Copyright Office offers creative workers a powerful labor protective.

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[–] FiskFisk33@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Thats not really what that ruling was, in the case the AI created, and if i remember correctly also published, the work with no human intervention, making it hard to apply to pretty much any normal ai generated content.

[–] Spectacle8011@lemmy.comfysnug.space 3 points 2 years ago

It's a shame that Cory Doctorow of all people seems to have misinterpreted this. And that he is using Medium to deliver this story.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does that mean I could still own the rights to a work of fiction created by an AI because I prompted it? How much human invention has to actually be there?

[–] nous@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

How much human invention has to actually be there?

This is still up for debate, from the case in question:

Undoubtedly, we are approaching new frontiers in copyright as artists put AI in their toolbox to be used in the generation of new visual and other artistic works. The increased attenuation of human creativity from the actual generation of the final work will prompt challenging questions regarding how much human input is necessary to qualify the user of an AI system as an “author” of a generated work, the scope of the protection obtained over the resultant image, how to assess the originality of AI-generated works where the systems may have been trained on unknown pre-existing works, how copyright might best be used to incentivize creative works involving AI, and more.