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		mellavora on Aug 31, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stable Diffusion is a big deal How about if I use Stable Diffusion, running 24/7 on a massive set of parallel clusters, and file for IP protection on all of the resulting images? What potentially human-creatable images have I just taken ownership of? Let's extend: what if I claim IP ownership of every image which StableDiffusion could produce?

dodobirdlord on Sept 1, 2022 [–]

The main reason is that you can’t, because only a work produced by a human is eligible for copyright.

For example, it has previously been litigated that nobody has IP ownership of an image taken with a camera by an animal.

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