alt Hacker NewsI don't think this is the correct interpretation. I think they mean that if you make something without AI and then modify that with AI, that's covered. Likewise, if you start from an AI output and modify it, that's covered.
But the pure output of a generative model cannot be copyrighted, regardless of how complex the prompt is (note that the prompt itself could be copyrighted).
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What constitutes a modification? Here’s a reverse Sorities Paradox situation.
Let’s say I use an AI prompt to generate an image with 24-bit color, and then I manually change the RGB value of a single pixel from (255,255,255) to (254,255,255).
Does that constitute a modification and would then allow the image to be copyrighted? If not, where is the line?
This is how I understood the original decision a while back - that there had to be some additional element of human involvement post-"gen", though to what extent is still a bit unclear to me.
What's the threshold? Can the person just slap an LUT on an SDXL image in Photoshop and call it a day?
> But the pure output of a generative model cannot be copyrighted, regardless of how complex the prompt is
If that’s how the court interpreted it, then the software industry is hosed, since that’d mean none of the generated code running in production right now is under any sort of copyright or otherwise protection, lol.