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This has a ruling, see https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/05/04/us-copyright-offi...

When you're using ai models to generate the art, it's not considered human enough. If you then make a bunch of modifications to it, sure, but giving the initial prompt is currently insufficient

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> The Copyright Office granted copyright to the book as a whole but not to the individual images in the book

Interesting and makes sense. I guess the best comparison I can think of is a random number generated with Math.random() is not copyrightable. But including that random number is a program is copyrightable.

I'd say that a corollary to this is that if the images/words generated by the machine are not copyrightable then they cannot also be _copyright violations_

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