Elisa Shupe, a retired US Army veteran who wrote and self-published her novel with extensive assistance from ChatGPT, was granted limited copyright protection for her work by the US Copyright Office. Rather than recognize her as the author of the entire text, the Copyright Office considers Shupe the author of the “selection, coordination, and arrangement of text generated by artificial intelligence.” That means no one can copy the book without permission, but specific sentences or paragraphs themselves are not protected under copyright. This decision is more or less in keeping with past decisions from the Copyright Office regarding AI-assisted work. Learn more at Wired.
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