[rcme]

The USCO also gave their justification: not enough human input in the process of creation to justify a copyright. After all, what is the point of copyright? To protect the interest of human creators. Human creators get exclusivity on their own ideas in exchange for sharing them with the world. This deal breaks down if there is no effort involved in creating the works.

[jay_kyburz]

As a technical artists, dabbling with AI, I can tell you that it takes a lot of time an effort to generate prompts, asses the quality of the generated images, curate collections of images to be in the same art style. I haven't even started trying to work out how to get the same characters in different pictures.

If I wanted the look of my product to be "ball point pen on post-it note" it would have been a lot less work and effort and it would get copyright protection.

Effort is the wrong measure.

[csnover]

> After all, what is the point of copyright? To protect the interest of human creators.

Sorry if I’ve missed your point here, but the purpose of copyright in the United States, as written in its constitution, is to promote the progress of science and useful arts[0], not to protect the interests of creators. The exclusive license to creators is a means to an end.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_St...

[rcme]

> The Congress shall have Power [...] to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

That sounds like protecting the interests of human creators so they keep creating, to me at least.