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Also I don't understand why pressing a button on a camera is so different

Take any good digital came, switch it on, and press the button. Do you get a great photograph? No, because you haven't even removed the lens cap. Photography is not about pressing the button, it's about where you point the camera and how you configure it before you push the button.

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I mean these analogies could be applied to AI image gen too. Open up an image gen tool and press generate. Do you get a great image? No, because you didn’t even enter a prompt.

Generating AI art can get as complex as you want:

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/14ye2eg/co...

https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI

Once you hit the shutter button you do get a great photograph due to all the machine learning and other post processing the photo is exposed to.

I could see an argument that a heavily augmented normal photo is not much different from a photo generated from a prompt. Digital zoom is virtually AI inpainting where it guesses the detail.

It doesn't matter where you point the camera to own the copyright unless you're violating other laws like privacy laws I would imagine.

Ownership of copyright isn't the question. Existence of it is.

Okay and we can agree that with photography copyright exists even if it just requires the press of button.

No, we can't. It requires creative input, not mechanical curation.

So you don't believe that if I take a picture right now I would own the copyright from it? Because that's not how it works.

It depends. It's not automatic. That's the point.

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