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Artist appeals copyright denial for prize-winning AI-generated work

AI art may create a whole new world of copyright trolling, expert warns.

Walsh acknowledged that AI-assisted artists have good reason to feel frustrated when their works aren't considered original when even casual photographs of things that exist in nature that probably shouldn't be copyrighted are treated as human authorship. But he expects that "we are going to see a lot of art that involves AI getting copyrighted," as artists learn to make simple tweaks to ensure ownership. "It really is this narrower circumstance where the AI is final decider of what the thing looks like where the rule applies that it's not copyrightable because it's not a work of human authorship," Walsh said.

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