Onlymaniac

Every time I see someone post “AI art can’t be copyrighted” I know they haven’t actually read a single ruling. The U.S. Copyright Office has been granting copyright registrations for AI-assisted artwork. They did it for a comic book. They did it for an image of a piece of cheese. Harvard Law wrote about it. What can’t be copyrighted is if you let an AI run completely autonomously with zero human creative input and then try to list the AI as the author. That’s what the Thaler case was about. The guy literally listed his AI as the sole creator and said he did nothing. A monkey once took a selfie and a court ruled it couldn’t be copyrighted because there was no human author. Nobody walked away from that case thinking cameras can’t produce copyrighted photos. But that’s exactly the logic people are using with the Thaler ruling. The Copyright Office’s own 2025 report says AI-assisted works qualify for copyright when the human provides substantial creative input. Selection, arrangement, editing, composition. You know, like what every filmmaker, graphic designer, and digital artist using AI tools is actually doing. But keep posting the misinformation. It makes it easier for the people actually building things to operate while you argue about stuff you didn’t read.

Every single person who picked up an AI filmmaking tool this year and actually made something is further ahead than 99% of the people with opinions about it. You made a thing. You told a story. You learned a new tool and bent it to your will. While everybody else was arguing about whether AI is “real art,” you were in the trenches figuring out prompts and pipelines and frame rates. I don’t care what some guy on Reddit thinks about your workflow. I don’t care what a film school professor who hasn’t shipped anything in 15 years thinks about your creative process. Those people don’t build. They comment. You are literally the first generation of filmmakers who can go from idea to screen without asking anyone’s permission. No studio. No gatekeeper. No six-figure budget standing between you and your story. That has never existed before in the history of filmmaking. So keep making things. Keep shipping. Keep getting better. The people who hate what you’re doing will eventually be working for the people who didn’t stop.

the AI bubble might genuinely pop soon with sora shutting down. holy fuck this is what i have been waiting for