This short video, by artist Neil Blevins, gives a good explanation of a recent US Copyright Office document that covers the AI that is suddenly everywhere.
I haven’t read the whole document, but the parts I have seem well-translated. The main point is that only work that is the product of a human—as opposed to an AI-generated piece without further adjustment—can be copyrighted. Prompts that gave rise to the piece don’t count as creative action; you have to tweak the piece in some way afterwards.
I’m sure further developments in AI usage will shape this rule further, but basically, your work’s gotta have your grimy fingerprints on it somewhere.
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I had a dream a couple weeks ago in which there was an AI engine that would not only do the writing for you, it also designed a font with which to display that writing. Based on the content I guess?
Bruce, that’s really cool! I bet it’s in our future…