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Comment Re:AI vs GPL? (Score 1) 45

Actually, it has to be 'substantial human input' to be considered valid. Reworking prompts, and then doing photoshop tweaking to the resulting image is not enough to clear the bar to get copyright protection for example. Another that's been through the process, using AI to generate a book and then doing some light editing on it, the 'author' was allowed to claim copyright on the layout, but not the content after appealing multiple times and trying to claim an ADA exception. So if AI spat out 100 lines of code, and you touched up a few... unlikely to be considered enough to qualify for copyright. If you modify it enough to clear that bar... what did the AI really do?

Comment Re:Better than nothing (Score 3, Informative) 74

Most people that have solar on the roof are just setup for grid tie, so when the power goes out, their system shuts down as well, so they're just as in the dark as those around them. Solar + battery that can run independent of the grid is far rarer due to the increased install cost and concern over batter replacement costs down the line.

Comment Now it all makes sense (Score 1) 43

Google, a company based on their search technology first has never had a good search engine in their mail or docs clients. Well, now I know why, they were waiting to have a data slurping means of powering it instead of just making the existing implementation decent. They've already got the data, no reason to suck it into yet another mess, bah, something else I'll need to figure out how to disable.

Comment Re:Copyright protection status isn't uncertain (Score 2) 18

Look at existing instances that have already been through the system: Artist worked at a prompt for awhile to create a base scene with Midjourney, then went in after and did some moderate adjusting with traditional tools ala Photoshop, etc. Copyright office said no go. Look up "Theatre D'opera Spatial" for the details. The graphic novel "Zarya of the Dawn" has also had the copyright denied for the images in the graphic novel because again, machine generated.

Comment Copyright protection status isn't uncertain (Score 4, Informative) 18

In the US the Copyright office has been VERY clear on this, machine generated content cannot receive copyright protections. AI prompts cannot receive copyright protection. Content that has mixed human and machine generated content must have the machine generated portions declared so copyright protection can be excluded from those portions.

The US Patent office is on the same page, patents must be human thought up and authored, full stop.

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