Authors and Machines

Protection of AI output

Can AI-generated work be protected?

Only the human parts

Machines are never authors; the user or the designer may be, and some outputs are authorless

What it says

Applying a conception-and-execution model of authorship, the authors argue machines are faithful agents of humans, so asking whether a computer is an author is the wrong question. Depending on their contribution, either the user or the designer who trained the machine can be the author; where both are too remote, the work is authorless.

Whether you own AI-assisted work depends on how much you conceived and shaped it.

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