[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by uruguru

Let me clarify that point. I was suggesting that copyright law is going to necessarily be changed in ways that we cannot currently predict in response to the widespread use of AI. At some point, EVERY writer is going to be using AI to assist in their writing and the copyright laws will need to change to reflect that.

The problem with any such changes is that under U.S. copyright law the human authorship requirement is long-standing, well-established, and backed by legal precedent. Overturning legal precedent is very difficult.

Using AI as an assistant is probably not a problem, provided the final work is clearly the product of a human mind. For example, if an AI program gives you the basic plot of a story, from which you then write a novel from scratch, the novel would likely be copyrightable since you as the author wrote every word of the story and exercised ultimate creative control.

Originally Posted by uruguru

I am old enough to remember when software copyrights started and new precedents had to be set on how to handle software and there was a lot of chaos in the first few years. We bounced between extremes from the LDOS case to the "look and feel" false of Borland's Quattro.

I expect over the next decade there will likely be copyright legal cases involving AI usage which will clarify matters. At present, though, for anyone using AI in a work intended for commercial purposes, be cautious.