alt Hacker NewsThe purpose be to claim in court, ownership and/or rights over said works of an individual who has used AI to assist in the production of the output. Even if the actual idea or concept comes from a person, if the AI inserts watermarking into text, the legal fuel is the watermarking of text, which can then be used in court to fight for rights, where otherwise there would not even be any debate.
Imagine a patent drafted by AI under human direction. Regardless of the current laws, this would provide evidence for, and leave the door open for future laws/claims...
The law in the US allows copyright with "substantial editing" but the watermark system isn't specific enough to highlight individual words or sentences.
Claims would literally be on the balance of probabilities, and there would be argument about exactly where the line is, given that some passages could be heavily edited while some might not be edited at all, and does that mean only parts of the work can be copyrighted?
Other countries allow copyright for AI gen work, so there's no issue there.