Raw LLM Responses

This is a really reprehensibly misleading headline that was slapped together for clickbait purposes. The US Copyright Office issued this ruling months ago, and the court just upheld it. We've known this for a long time. The decision is that generative AI can't be an "author" for copyright purposes. So there has to be more than just a simple prompt put into a generative AI program. What this means: 1. Most of what comes out of Midjourney is probably public domain (particularly specific prompts and/or image prompts might be something that gets challenged in court, later) 2. If you're doing post-processing (like loading an image up in Photoshop to clean up AI artifacts) then you're probably the author, and the work is probably copyrightable (just as if you had edited any public domain image, creating a new, copyrightable derivative) 3. Complex works like a movie that have some AI assets are almost certainly unaffected by this. That being said, *I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.* If you have concerns about your own work's status, please contact a lawyer.