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> The simple fact is that the vast majority of people consider Gen AI output to be authored by the machine that generated it

They do?

I routinely see people say "Here's an xyz I generated." They are stating that they did the do-ing, and the machine's role is implicitly acknowledged in the same was as a camera. And I'd be shocked if people didn't have a sense of authorship of the idea, as well as an increasing sense of authorship over the actual image the more they iterated on it with the model and/or curated variations.



Yes people will happily claim authorship over AI output when it’s in their favour. They will equally disclaim authorship if it allows them to express a view while avoiding the consequences of expressing that view.

I don’t think it’s hard to believe that the press wouldn’t have a field day if someone managed to get Apple Gen AI stuff to express something racist, or equally abusive.

Case in point, article about how Google’s Veo 3 model is being used to flood TikTok with racist content:

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/racist-ai-videos-created-...




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