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Copyright office will not find human authorship where AI program generates works (congress.gov)
1 point by internet_points 71 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


> prompts alone do not provide sufficient human control to make users of an AI system the authors of the output

> While highly detailed prompts could contain the user’s desired expressive elements, at present they do not control how the AI system processes them in generating the output.

Aren't there other tokens one can use in a prompt like (((important thing))) to influence how it's processed?

Plus, there are other variables one can change that affect how the output is generated, besides the prompt. Would claiming that you intentionally used specific other variable values (like temperature/threshold/penalty/seed/etc.) then deem the work as copyrightable? What if you could explain in greater detail what the AI tool was actually doing behind the scenes?




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