You can’t copyright AI-generated writing in the US, says federal court

You can’t copyright AI output, says US federal court. As ChatGPT and other AI models become more prevalent, there is growing debate over whether generated works can be copyrighted. The Copyright Office and other governments have already declined to assign copyright to works created by AI. A US federal court has ruled that AI-generated works are in the public domain.<br><br>The ruling follows a lawsuit by AI developer Jeremy Ayden Hollen, which claimed that a book of AI art should be recognized as a copyrightable work. The court, however, ruled in favor of the Copyright Office, stating that the works aren’t eligible for copyright, and are public domain. Judge Beryl A. Howell said that AI outputs are not original works of authorship. The court emphasized that only humans are able to create original works of authorship, and that the AI models themselves are not original works of authorship. However, original human-created works that are enhanced with AI could still be eligible for copyright.