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A comment on U.S. Copyright Office issues statement on works containing AI-generated material. Parent comment

Re:U.S. Copyright Office issues statement on works containin... by RHSeeger on Friday March 17, 2023 @01:19AM (#35193445)
I'm curious where the "line" is, though. If I do a web search for a term, I get various results. As I refine my search, the results get closer to what I want. Eventually, there comes a point where it's possible to recognize that there is "skill" associated with crafting a good web search. To some extent, the same is true of crafting what you tell the AI to generate for you; especially as AIs become more complex in what they can be told to do.

So, given that, at what point does enough creativity go into the crafting of the instructions that it _can_ be considered, at least in part, a work by the person giving the commands.

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Re:U.S. Copyright Office issues statement on works containin... by heavyset_go on Friday March 17, 2023 @01:32AM (#35193537)
Being good at using a search engine doesn't mean that the produced results are your IP.
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Re:U.S. Copyright Office issues statement on works containin... by avereveard on Friday March 17, 2023 @01:24AM (#35193478)
Never for the generated work, because a human isn't doing it, but you may be able to copyright the prompt
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Re:U.S. Copyright Office issues statement on works containin... by pbhjpbhj on Saturday March 18, 2023 @08:10AM (#35208410)
The prompt isn't a creative work, it's constrained by a technical need (producing a desired response from a generative computer system).v
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Re:U.S. Copyright Office issues statement on works containin... by RHSeeger on Saturday March 18, 2023 @10:08AM (#35209247)
So is work done in a program like photoshop, and that is considered a creative work.
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Re:U.S. Copyright Office issues statement on works containin... by pbhjpbhj on Sunday March 19, 2023 @08:42AM (#35218391)
The steps you take to make a work in a graphics program, eg "open an image, circle area with lasso tool, apply content-aware-fill" are not copyrightable. The method and product are different things.
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