@arstechnica The copyright office did the correct thing. An algorithm based on human prompts and using other people's copyrighted, unlicensed works in the training of the AI, should not be copyrightable at all.

If copyright were to be granted, who gets the copyright? You the prompter? The company that developed the algorithm? Or the artist whose unlicensed works were used in the training of that AI model?

If AI were to become more accepted and copyright allowed, I would bet money that companies that created the AI would see it as their software is creating the art, you are merely giving it prompts, they deserve the copyright to any artwork YOU prompted the AI to make. Then sneak it into the EULA that any AI artwork you generated is copyrighted to the company that made the software. Not You.

Arguing that prompts you as the end user gives is like someone requesting an art piece from an artist.

Putting us back here at square one again.

AI artwork should always be unprofitable.