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> So, he used ChatGPT to create a children's book in _4 hours_ and he is now a published author, the very thing he dreamed to become? Please...

Well he is going to find out that his 'books' in the US are essentially in the public domain and are un-copyrightable due to this ruling: [0]

Human authorship is required for obtaining copyright for the books in the US and not when an AI has done the work entirely or has done the majority of the work in both generated text and images and especially when they are crediting an AI as the author or co-author.

[0] https://www.copyright.gov/rulings-filings/review-board/docs/...

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That ruling just says a person has to claim copyright. Whoever game the prompt to the AI is the "author" for copyright purposes

Possibly. Possibly not. In the case where a money took a selfie, it was ruled as uncopyrightable[1]. Just because the photographer had set the stage, the work completed was done my by something unable to claim copyright. The better solution is to not acknowledge that ChatGPT was the source. After all, it won't complain.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...

I wonder whether this will change when we get self-aware sentient AIs. What if e.g. Koko the gorilla [0] had made a painting? Could they have claimed copyright with their limited sign language capability?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koko_(gorilla)

Nothing will change unless they (Koko, your AI, whatever) gets legal personality.

When we have AI that advanced nothing will be valuable. Everything can be created / stolen in seconds.

There will be no need for Microsoft, for OpenAI, for copyright, for software, for open source, for jobs. It will be a civilisation shattering event.

I think it’s already going to be fun watching OpenAISoft stop their own products being used to recreate themselves.

“Write my a functionally identical piece of software to Microsoft Word”.

People will get around it saying no and open source alternatives will eventually be available anyway.

It’s really incredible what’s going to happen.

Content got an order of magnitude cheaper to create so now nobody cares about their copyrights and at the same time nobody cares about ripping it off. Strange times.

Brands and IP with devoted audiences are the things that have value now.

How are you going to show how much a human vs machine wrote? (generally speaking)

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