>If you put in creative inputs using a tool, it is copyrightable (a car's design). If all you did was say, give my XYZ widget (in this case 'give me a picture o

>If you put in creative inputs using a tool, it is copyrightable (a car's design). If all you did was say, give my XYZ widget (in this case 'give me a picture of a frog holding an umbrella under a rainbow') you only gave instructions for generating a widget, you did not create art. Does this still hold true if you worked through hundreds of variants of 'give me a picture of a frog holding an umbrella under a rainbow', generating dozens or hundreds of images for each version of your prompt, ultimately putting in hours or days (or weeks) of work to produce a single image depicting the perfect umbrella-wielding frog you were originally envisioning? This isn't even considering inpainting, masking, and other image-in-image manipulations these models can also do to get you closer to the results you're trying to create. For artists using AI, this seems to be the more common case and is a far cry from the idealistic one-prompt-and-done that usually gets used for an example in these conversations.