[wongarsu]

All the arguments for why photographs are copyrighted would seem to apply. The photographer isn't painting the image, but his artistic input is still vital to creating the image. Same with training these models: the training is just an algorithm on some data, but choosing the right hyperparameters and training data is an artistic expression of the author, making copyright apply

[MacsHeadroom]

If a non-human presses the button on the camera the photograph is not copyrightable even if a human set up the camera intending for the non-human to press it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...

For the same reasons this monkey photo cannot be copyrighted it is highly likely that AI generated art is uncopyrightable and that would also mean that models are. The fact that humans set up the systems which produce the art/models with the intention of getting an end results generally like the one they get is simply not meaningful to the copyright dispute.