Stephen Thaler’s series of high-profile copyright cases has made headlines worldwide. He’s done it to demonstrate his AI is capable of independent thought.

The Inventor Behind a Rush of AI Copyright Suits Is Trying to Show His Bot Is Sentient::Stephen Thaler’s series of high-profile copyright cases has made headlines worldwide. He’s done it to demonstrate his AI is capable of independent thought.

  • Hildegarde@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Sapience has nothing to do with it either.

    “only works created by a human can be copyrighted under United States law, which excludes photographs and artwork created by animals or by machines without human intervention”

    • Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices, released on 22 December 2014