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They're probably public domain [1,2]. Generally in the USA and Europe, you can't copyright computer generated images or images created by nonhuman entities.

"To qualify as a work of 'authorship' a work must be created by a human being": https://www.copyright.gov/comp3/chap300/ch300-copyrightable-... [PDF], see section 313.2 "Works that lack human authorship"

Monkey selfie case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...

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From the Wiki article of the "Monkey Selfie Case"

>>> On 23 April, the court issued its ruling in favor of Slater, finding that animals have no legal authority to hold copyright claims [1]

[1] https://petapixel.com/2018/04/24/photographer-wins-monkey-se...

I feel this is wrong. If I make random generative art I instantly lose copyright? Or how about Photoshop? Really I'm asking myself where is the lone drawn.

You can though own the algorithm you used to generate the art, as in the case of Fractal Flame[0] created by Scott Draves.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_flame

You don’t “loose” copyright, you never had it in the first place.

Copyright is (read the law!) a temporary monopoly granted for works meeting certain criteria, being creative is one of them. You’d hold copyright for the code you wrote to generate the “art”. If you download somebody else’s code (as this site uses Nvidia’s), you lack the creative element.

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