New guidance from the US Copyright Office says AI images and the prompts used to create them are not copyrightable.

AI’s use in art, movies gets a boost from the U.S. Copyright Office The generative AI boom has raised complex, multibillion-dollar legal questions that courts across the country are in the early stages of trying to address.

The new guidelines say that AI prompts currently don’t offer enough control to “make users of an AI system the authors of the output.” (AI systems themselves can’t hold co