AI-assisted works can get copyright

Here’s the report from the US Copyright Office. Kind of a big deal if you work in publishing!

https://www.copyright.gov/ai/

Some conclusions:

- Copyright protects the original expression in a work created by a human author, even if the work also includes AI-generated material.

- Copyright does not extend to purely AI-generated material, or material where there is insufficient human control over the expressive elements.

- Whether human contributions to AI-generated outputs are sufficient to constitute authorship must be analyzed on a case-by-case basis.

- Based on the functioning of current generally available technology, prompts do not alone provide sufficient control.

Noted.

So, Shira Perlmutter makes a report that it is fine to steal original works, ignore their copyright and then create new "works" with "AI", which are copyright protected.

The laundering is complete. We may assume that Shira Perlmutter has never created anything of value.