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Author granted copyright over book with AI-generated text—with a twist (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Copyright Office changed course after initially denying request.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Although Shupe’s limited copyright registration is notable, she originally asked the USCO to open a more significant path to copyright recognition for AI-generated material. “I seek to copyright the AI-assisted and AI-generated material under an ADA exemption for my many disabilities,” she wrote in her original copyright application.

Shupe believes fervently that she was only able to complete her book with the assistance of generative AI tools. She says she has been assessed as 100 percent disabled by the Department of Veterans Affairs and struggles to write due to cognitive impairment related to conditions including bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, and a brain stem malformation.

I'm sympathetic, but writing a book is not something most people do regardless of their disabilities. Writing is a talent, and most people don't have it. So it makes no sense to invoke the ADA here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

To play devils advocate, talents are things you develop with practice, if you have conditions which prevent you from developing those compared to people without those conditions and which you would like to be able to do, reasonably this is an ada accommodation.

This is a fairly well recognized accommodation to boot.