Content produced by Artificial Intelligence can not be granted copyright protection. As of August 2023, the US Copyright Office stipulates that copyrighted material must have a human author, and prompting an AI tool to create content does not count as human authorship. In March 2023, the Copyright Office launched an initiative to examine copyright law in relation to AI, so there is a possibility that this policy may change in the future.
Many AI models are trained using copyrighted content scraped from the Internet. It is unclear if this use is considered copyright infringement, as this form of reuse could be protected under fair use. Several lawsuits have been filed against AI companies, and the outcomes of those cases may shape new policies and practices related to intellectual property and generative AI.