AI-assisted artwork poses a simple question: When can an artist using AI tools copyright their work? Early this year, the Copyright Office addressed this issue and rejected the proposition that only prompting an AI model can create a copyrightable work. But their analysis missed that “randomness for a computer means something entirely different than we generally think, ultimately underselling the amount of control someone can have over the model’s output.
AI-assisted artwork poses a simple question: When can an artist using AI tools copyright their work? Early this year, the Copyright Office addressed this issue and rejected the proposition that only prompting an AI model can create a copyrightable work. But their analysis missed that “randomness for a computer means something entirely different than we generally think, ultimately underselling the amount of control someone can have over the model’s output.
