US copyright board has ruled that art generated substantively by AI is not eligible for copyright (because copyright requires a human component)
like in the case of the photo taken by a monkey
BUT, if nature photography is copyrightable, one could argue that "prompt engineering" is akin to "picking a good perspective, and tweaking some camera parameters", wherein a model like Midjourney is a vast "field of nature" in which to search for perspectives of value
if I wrote a simple program to create an image, would it be copyrightable? (yes, I think)
one then might think that the generate images should at least belong to the model creators
by saying generative-AIs have no substantive human component, the board implies that prompt engineering, nor the model engineering have substantive human input
and, that generative-AI-models are their own non-human product