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You're forgetting about 'who paid for the electricity, hardware and set up the model used in generating this image?'

Couldn't this allow the person hosting the model to claim copyright?

I am also thinking about hyper-parameter configuration and selection of training data as creative human input in this process.



No, it doesn't. Again, the law is very clear about this. The US Copyright Office guidelines are extremely blunt: machines are not authors. Period. It doesn't matter if you twiddled with the hyperparameters or how much you paid for the electricity. (Similarly, you can spend billions of dollars measuring a physical constant, but as a fact, it is not copyrightable.)




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