>why would generative AI output (possibly including inpainting or outpainting) be fundamentally different? Because copyright requires human authorship. You ch

>why would generative AI output (possibly including inpainting or outpainting) be fundamentally different? Because copyright requires human authorship. You choosing to apply filters may rise to the level of being able to copyright those changes but will never affect the copyright status of the underlying image. Getting an AI that cannot create copyrightable changes to make changes like in painting or out painting just creates another uncopyrightable public domain image because there are no human authors. If you got an a neural network to choose and apply the previous transformations that too is not copyrightable. Copyright requires a human author.