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That’s not enough to generate copyright protection.

The creativity requirements may seem arbitrary but there’s a legal distinction between a sculpture and a standard brick.

>The creativity requirements may seem arbitrary but there’s a legal distinction between a sculpture and a standard brick.

Or more relevantly, a recipe find on recipe sites (with the author's entire backstory) vs a sequence of instructions. The latter is not copyrightable, even if there was some creativity that went into it (eg. word choice).

Judges are not at all stupid enough to fall for that. You would get laughed out of court for that. Judges are not computers, and they can not be tricked with these kinds of technicalities.

In fact, the defense of "I wrote the prompts that led to the code that the LLM wrote" would be a much better defense.

My bet would be to build anything from multiple independently generated pieces of AI code. Thus the software build from AI generated blocks by human would at least have protection on basis of the structure and work put into that.

You will have copyright of that single change