Thaler seems to go out of his way to claim no human intervention and authorship by the AI - So yeah, that's a very specific ruling that has little to do with AI as a tool. It's really more about AI personhood.
What's potentially more of a problem is the mention of artists using Midjourney and denied copyright - and very much separate cases from Thaler.
>Thaler seems to go out of his way to claim no human intervention and authorship by the AI - So yeah, that's a very specific ruling that has little to do with AI as a tool. It's really more about AI personhood.
This, it was a poorly concocted scheme. People do stuff like this all the time, but even when they manage to confuse one branch of the government, the rest of the government isn't suddenly obligated to go along with it.
I don't feel that it was a misguided attempt to "get copyright". Wasn't the attempt specifically to get copyright attributed to the AI (rather than to Thaler)? So it was some grand scheme about AI personhood or business plan about selling software that would own its output. Who knows. Whatever. Not relevant to copyright for AI as a tool.
What's potentially more of a problem is the mention of artists using Midjourney and denied copyright - and very much separate cases from Thaler.