From a different direction: images created by a monkey cannot be copyrighted. If you raise a monkey, teach it everything, and then give it a camera, nothing it

From a different direction: images created by a monkey cannot be copyrighted. If you raise a monkey, teach it everything, and then give it a camera, nothing it takes can be copyrighted. At least based on current US IP law. So AI can't have it both ways - either it's doing something rote computationally like CGI in which case it could be copyrighted, or it's doing something novel on its own, in which case it can't. (Or, my personal preference, probably the law should be changed) But as it stands this isn't a super surprising result from the IP law side of things. Unfortunate reality yes, but not surprising.