I believe the current understanding of GAN copyright is that the "minimum degree of creativity" happens when a human chooses the inputs/outputs and copyright is

I believe the current understanding of GAN copyright is that the "minimum degree of creativity" happens when a human chooses the inputs/outputs and copyright is assigned to the human at that point. Drawing the input image for GauGAN probably suffices. Fully automated outputs (like pulling an image at random from thispersondoesnotexist.com) would be public domain since non-humans cannot hold copyrights and no creativity was applied. This is analogous to the "creativity" of a photo being the settings and framing done by the person who set up the shot and is why the famous "monkey selfie" fell under public domain[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...