The machine as author

Protection of AI output

Can AI-generated work be protected?

Human authors only

Output without human creative choices belongs in the public domain

What it says

Gervais weighs the arguments for protecting AI-made literary and artistic material and finds them unpersuasive. Output that does not reflect human creative choices should stay in the public domain; he offers a test for human and machine collaborations, applied to three scenarios.

A leading statement that copyright's line should be drawn at human creative choice.

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