The new guidelines say that AI prompts currently don’t offer enough control to “make users of an AI system the authors of the output.” (AI systems themselves can’t hold co

Artwork generated by artificial intelligence must have a human contributor to earn copyright protection in the United States, the U.S. Copyright Office has determined.

Works created entirely by prompts and generative AI cannot be copyright protected • Works created by both humans and AI need to be determined on a case-by-case basis • The copyright of photographs was once questioned because they "were the product of a machine.