The headline conclusion in the Copyright Office's report is that output generated simply by using a text prompt in an AI image generator cannot be copyrighted. In line with previous decisions, it concludes: “Prompts alone do not provide sufficient human control to make users of an AI system the authors of the output."

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.