Attempt to get copyright on wholly AI-generated art gunned down by US Supreme Court

The highest legal authority in the USA has refused to take a case involving a Missouri computer scientist who wants to copyright art created by his own generative AI system. The compsci guy in question, Dr Stephen Thaler, appealed to the Supreme Court justices after lower courts upheld a US Copyright Office decision that his art doesn't make the cut for copyright protection, because it wasn't created by a human.

As reported by Reuters, Thaler's generative AI tech is the winningly dorkish...