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by jasrys 546 days ago
No one. At least in the US, copyright requires human authorship.[1]

There are several ongoing cases, probably most prominently the Thaler v. Perlmutter case. [2]

[1] https://www.copyright.gov/ai/ai_policy_guidance.pdf

[2] https://www.copyright.gov/ai/docs/us-brief-for-appellees.pdf

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My understanding of the linked report is it's saying you can't register a work as being "Copyright ChatGPT" or what have you. This is obviously stupid on a bunch of levels—just to begin with, how would "ChatGPT" sue someone for infringement? If it can't, then its copyright is meaningless.

The article is about whether the human using ChatGPT can claim copyright.