AI Generated Art - Copyright Office Weighs In Again

Kent Keirsey, CEO of Invoke, an AI creation platform, submitted a copyright application for his AI-generated art entitled "A Single Piece of American Cheese." The work is completely created by artificial intelligence (AI). Given this and the Copyright Office's rule that only works created by humans are registrable, the application was initially rejected.

Then, Keirsey submitted additional evidence to the Copyright Office, including a time lapsed video showing the work's creation to prove that he is an author of the work. Keirsey explains that he used a process called inpainting which allowed him to select areas of the AI-generated image and generate new AI elements in that portion with a new prompt. Repeating this process 35 times resulted in the final collage image.