The US Copyright Office says an AI can’t copyright its art
Steven Thaler and/or Creativity Machine The US Copyright Office has rejected a request to let an AI copyright a work of art. Last week, a three-person board reviewed a 2019 ruling against Steven Thaler, who tried to copyright a picture on behalf of an algorithm he dubbed Creativity Machine. The board found that Thaler's AI-created image didn't include an element of human authorship" - a necessary standard, it said, for protection.
Creativity Machine's work, seen above, is named A Recent Entrance to Paradise." It's part of a series Thaler has described as a simulated near-death experience" in which an algorithm reprocesses pictures to create hallucinatory images and a fictional narrative about the afterlife. Crucially, the AI is supposed to do this with extremely minimal...