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That's interesting but how is anyone supposed to prove it? They would have to get their hands on your prompts.

Leaks, whistleblowers. Some circumstantial evidence will also do if there's enough of it. Like having hallucinated parts of code that do absolutely nothing, and can't be explained as e.g. leftovers from a refactor.

> They would have to get their hands on your prompts

Unless you are running a local model, your prompts are almost certainly logged by your inference provider, and would only be a subpoena away?

That still sounds incredibly vague and open for interpretation. For example, is setting up md files defining how you want things to be written enough?

And what exactly does it mean to "direct" how the work is constructed?

If I enter dark factory mode and go live my life while it churns tokens, then it's not copyrightable, but if I interact with it at every turn, then it is?