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by hamasho 70 days ago
AI-generated content should have the same amount of copyright as prompt texts. You can't claim copyright for the text "Rock music with angry vocals and 160 bpm with a guitar solo".

But I think training models using copyrighted content is stealing in the first place. It's not fair use, so it should be banned entirely.

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> AI-generated content should have the same amount of copyright as prompt texts.

That's about right currently.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-de...

"Plaintiff Stephen Thaler had appealed to the justices after lower courts upheld a U.S. Copyright Office decision that the AI-crafted visual art at issue in the case was ineligible for copyright protection because it did not have a human creator."

I have great news for you.

It has even less copyright. A prompt text you write, if sufficiently creative enough, is copyrighted. The output of an AI, no matter how “creative”, is always pubic domain.

https://sciactive.com/human-contribution-policy/#More-Inform...

pubic domain.

Only certain types of AI output.

All large language model output, unless it is infringing someone else’s copyright, is public domain. Did you read the quotes from the copyright office I linked to?