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Copyright Office suggests AI copyright debate was settled in 1965


Most people think purely AI-generated works shouldn’t be copyrighted, report says.

More than 10,000 commenters weighed in on the guidance, with some hoping to convince the Copyright Office to guarantee more protections for artists as AI technologies advance and the line between human- and AI-created works seems to increasingly blur. "The Office concludes that, given current generally available technology, prompts alone do not provide sufficient human control to make users of an AI system the authors of the output. Hugging Face's Head of ML & Society, Yacine Jernite, told Ars that the Copyright Office seemed to "take a constructive approach" to answering some of artists' biggest questions about AI.

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