Can You Own What an AI Created?

A monkey started this conversation in 2011

Frank Font
The Generator

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A monkey holding a camera
Image generated by AI from my text prompts, 2023. Who owns the copyright on this image?

British nature photographer David Slater did not directly take the following picture of a monkey in 2011. The monkey took the selfie using equipment David left in the forest for that purpose.

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Frank Font
The Generator

I’m a profoundly stupid guy who started learning only after admitting that. Confidently unsure.