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Artist tests limits of ‘human authorship’ of AI art as battle continues over who holds copyright
Last year, Kris Kashtanova typed instructions for a graphic novel into a new, artificial intelligence program and touched off a high-stakes debate over who created the artwork:
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A human or an algorithm?
Kashtanova entered Zendaya leaving gates of Central Park into Midjourney, an AI program similar to ChatGPT that produces dazzling illustrations from written prompts.
“Sci-fi scene future empty New York …”
From these inputs and hundreds more emerged Zarya of the Dawn, an 18-page story about a character resembling the actress Zendaya, who roams a deserted Manhattan hundreds of years in the…