(1) ask a lawyer if your tweaks were sufficiently creative to justify a copyright. (2) the work produced by the AI photo generator may itself be sufficiently d

(1) ask a lawyer if your tweaks were sufficiently creative to justify a copyright. (2) the work produced by the AI photo generator may itself be sufficiently derivative of other works that your work is also derivative and the original author may have a copyright claim against you since only they can authorize the distribution of derivative works. (3) If you use the AI photo as a reference for a painting, this again falls into the "it may be derivative of another work." For example, if I asked "Create a realistic black and white photograph of a moon rising over Half Dome in Yosemite." and it generated an image that was derivate of https://articles.anseladams.com/story-of-moon-and-half-dome/ https://articles.anseladams.com/story-of-moon-and-half-dome/ and then you used that image as a reference for your own, your image may be considered derivative of the Ansel Adams image. Just because the AI can't claim copyright on an image doesn't mean that the image it generated is not derivative of another that you would potentially be infringing on.