Stephen Thaler’s series of high-profile copyright cases has made headlines worldwide. He’s done it to demonstrate his AI is capable of independent thought.

The Inventor Behind a Rush of AI Copyright Suits Is Trying to Show His Bot Is Sentient::Stephen Thaler’s series of high-profile copyright cases has made headlines worldwide. He’s done it to demonstrate his AI is capable of independent thought.

  • Hildegarde@lemmy.worldEnglish
    401·
    1 year ago

    Animals are sentient. They cannot own copyrights. Proving the AI is sentient does nothing to make its outputs copyrightable.

    • ChrisLicht@lemm.eeEnglish
      117·
      1 year ago

      Well put. We are so jealous of our own sentience that we eat most of the other sentients. The idea that we’d show the respect of intellectual-property protections to another species is laughable; our jealousy is biblical.

      • Cypher@lemmy.worldEnglish
        132·
        1 year ago

        We are so jealous of our own sentience that we eat most of the other sentients.

        You understand this makes you sound insane right?

        Humans don’t eat sentient species out of jealousy.

        • ChrisLicht@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Jealousy in the biblical sense means being fiercely protective of one’s domain and prerogatives, and exclusionary to the point of not tolerating any other options. It’s not jealousy in the human-to-human sense.

      • Hildegarde@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Sapience has nothing to do with it either.

        “only works created by a human can be copyrighted under United States law, which excludes photographs and artwork created by animals or by machines without human intervention”

        • Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices, released on 22 December 2014