You also don't know who created the paint or what their secret formula is in traditional art. Drawing your art in Photoshop is clearly authorship. You are mani

You also don't know who created the paint or what their secret formula is in traditional art. Drawing your art in Photoshop is clearly authorship. You are manipulating each pixel from scratch to be how you want it. There may be algorithms between your mouse clicks and the final product, but you as the author still have complete control of the whole art. You can tweak each pixel until its exactly how you want. Asking an LLM for a picture of a duck is clearly not authorship. You did not create any pixels in that image, the LLM did. You just asked for it. Its no different than googling for a picture of a duck and claiming what you find because you engineered the google search query. There is a lot of murkiness in between, where you take assets from an LLM and use them in your own creation. I think having to disclaim the assets which were not created by you is a very reasonable solution.