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Comment by csmoak | original | All AI-generated code should be Open Source
[−]csmoak · 2026-11-15 Sun 16:03 UTC · link
Fully AI output from a single prompt is not copyrightable (in the US). Is fully AI output from a sequence of prompts not copyrightable? If it is, at what point does this change?
[−]hperrin · 2026-11-15 Sun 17:00 UTC · link
It’s not.

> Some technologies allow users to provide iterative “feedback” by providing additional prompts to the machine. For example, the user may instruct the AI to revise the generated text to mention a topic or emphasize a particular point. While such instructions may give a user greater influence over the output, the AI technology is what determines how to implement those additional instructions.

- Footnote 30

https://www.copyright.gov/ai/ai_policy_guidance.pdf