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> A computer cannot be the author but as long as it was a human that told the computer to make the image or wrote the code that allowed the computer to generate the image on its own, then the human is the author.

That is exactly not the case. US law specifically requires that a copyright can only be given to something an author has fixed into a tangible medium of expression. It is the act of fixing itself that makes an item copyrightable.

The law specifically excludes any process or procedure by which a work might ultimately come to be fixed from copyright protection.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/102