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Assisted work is the big clarifier I think

Is a picture edited with photoshop invalid when it uses content fill? What about a picture taken with an iphone, where AI could be part of the phone's processing pipeline or even generate details to make up for lack of optical zoom?

Does spell correction invalidate a book? what if there's AI rephrasing features at work? Where's the line?

I think as you get into those side questions, the only reasonable position becomes treating AI as tooling no different than any other piece of equipment.




I'd also think the creative input jumping mediums would also be a factor. Text to image is obviously a jump.


I think this specific quote from the article deals with this situation.

> U.S. Circuit Judge Patricia Millett wrote for a unanimous three-judge panel on Tuesday that U.S. copyright law "requires all work to be authored in the first instance by a human being."


You are right but there are a lot of curmudgeons that want you to get of their lawn with your AI. Really this whole situation is more of an indictment of copyright rather than of AI.




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