With the development of artificial intelligence technology,there is a certain similarity between AI-generated content(AIGC)and traditional works.Whether AIGC can be protected by copyright law is controversial.The inception of copyright law relies on the recognition of the author's creativity,and protects the"creative labor"under a certain threshold,rather than the broad input of human intelligence.The human input of AI system designer,the multiple prompts from users,and the subsequent modification of the human input falls into the category of general human input which is not protected by copyright law in most cases.There is no"predictability"in the specific expressions as the final results of the output of the current AI system generated by the designers and users,so the AI system is not a"tool"in the sense of copyright law.Even if human modification to AIGC can be considered a work,it is essential to exclude the contribution of AI systems within them.
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