That was Thaler's argument. He had the first prominent case in this debate. AFAIK, the artist implicitly gets copywrite to the work they created then your con

That was Thaler's argument. He had the first prominent case in this debate. AFAIK, the artist implicitly gets copywrite to the work they created then your contract with the artist transfers that copywrite to you. Thaler tried to argue that he and the AI were in a situation similar to "work for hire" with an artist, but there was no human input to the AI. But, the copyright office holds that non-human entities/events are not granted copyright protection and therefore have no rights to transfer. So, they rejected his claim.