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Opinion: The Copyright Office is making a mistake on AI-generated art (arstechnica.com)

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I've generally been against giving AI works copyright, but this article presented what I felt were compelling arguments for why I might be wrong. What do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You need direct control over some elements of a work to claim copyright. Not necessarily all of them.

So even if the microtexture is out of your control, you still have complete control of the framing, color, etc. That's sufficient to claim copyright.

If you lose control of every element by replacing them all with prompts and/or chance, then you lose the copyright. Which is what happened in the "monkey selfie" photo.