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My understanding was the copyright office indicated you can't get copyright for AI generated works:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/ai-created-images-lose-us-copy...

so it may not be "public domain", but if you can't get copyright protection in the US I don't see a difference.

The difference is an AI generated work can infringe someone's copyright. Suppose I have Stable Diffusion draw Spider-man. While I can't get copyright on the drawing, that doesn't make the drawing public domain in the sense we usually use the term "public domain."

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