Re: Capy: Request for endorsements

Rainer Deyke via Boost <[email protected]>
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On 2/17/26 18:47, Vinnie Falco via Boost wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 7:51 AM Matt Borland via Boost <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>
>> https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-2-Copyrightability-Report.pdf
> 
> 
> tl;dr:
> 
> AI-generated output isn't copyrightable. Prompts are ideas, not expression.
> Using AI as a tool doesn't affect your copyright. Modifying AI output can
> create copyrightable elements, but only the human parts. No new legislation
> needed. The interesting part they buried: identical prompts produce
> different outputs. That alone settles it. You can't be the "author" of
> expression you don't control. The rest is 41 pages of agreeing with this
> while being polite about it.
Clearly the person who gives the prompt has no copyright claim.  On the 
other hand, I can trivially write an "AI" program that regurgitates its 
exact training data, even if its internal model looks nothing like the 
training data.  If I "train" this "AI" on the Star Wars movie, does this 
means I can use it to create a copyright-free copy of Star Wars?

(Such an "AI" already exists.  It is called gzip.)


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Rainer Deyke - [email protected]

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