In a recent copyright application, the US Copyright Office wouldn't let me copyright my apps translations because I used Google Translate to help. I argued that

In a recent copyright application, the US Copyright Office wouldn't let me copyright my apps translations because I used Google Translate to help. I argued that I had created the original documentation (which they allowed) and that I had used Google Translate as a tool, typically doing several "round-trip" iterations to get the meanng across, but no joy. Here's an article from Ruters discussing the current state of copyright law with respect to AI in the US. https://builtin.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-copyright https://builtin.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-copyright To say that the law is unsettled is fair, but the US Copyright Office has a definite point of view, given existing law.