The U.S. Copyright Office has granted a copyright registration to Elisa Shupe, a retired U.S. Army veteran, for her novel “AI Machinations: Tangled Webs and Typed Words,” which extensively used OpenAI’s ChatGPT in its creation. The registration is among the first for creative works incorporating AI-generated text, but with a significant caveat – Shupe is considered the author of the “selection, coordination, and arrangement” of the AI-generated content, not the text itself.
Shupe, who writes under the pen name Ellen Rae, initially filed for copyright in October 2022, seeking an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) exemption due to her cognitive impairments. The Copyright Office rejected her application but later granted the limited copyright after Shupe appealed. The decision, as Wired points out, highlights the agency’s struggle to define authorship in the age of AI and the nuances of copyright protection for AI-assisted works.
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