At the other extreme, if content is entirely generated by A.I., it cannot be protected by copyright,” a new report from the office reads ( via Artnet). “Between these boundaries, various forms and combinations of human contributions can be involved in producing A.

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.

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