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I’ve never posted a phone image—I can’t take photos with the thing! 😄 But if you need to add copyright, the app would also have to include credit. If the app doesn’t provide credit, then you’re not required to add it, although you may need to indicate that it's an AI-generated image on the platform you're posting to.

No, AI art cannot be copyrighted. Just like any other type of AI-generated content, AI art isn't considered to be the work of a human creator.

John Askey Ah interesting. Thanks I was just wary with it being on Adobes app.

I’d stress again that you might need to declare the image as AI-generated, depending on the platform you’re posting it to. Some sites have strict rules about disclosing AI content, and you could get banned for not specifying that it’s AI, even if it’s used in a composite. -  just worth remembering :-) 

John Askey said

No, AI art cannot be copyrighted. Just like any other type of AI-generated content, AI art isn't considered to be the work of a human creator.

I know this will be a source of conjecture, but I am not sure this is always going to be correct.  Copyright laws in the UK are broad enough to suggest that this may be open to discussion.

The UK Government actually did a consultation on this and, as you'd expect, various stakeholders all claimed authorship of computer generated works.

The questions, that will probably end up in a Copyright Tribunal in the not too distant future will be focused on who the author of the work is.  Is it the millions of original works that any AI system ingests to create an AI image? Is the author the person who types the keywords into the system to generate an AI work?  Or is it the writers of the software that created the AI? 

If the latter, and this is key to the question that kellzmodel is asking here, then it would come down to the user agreement between the software company and the user of the AI generated work - even if you're not in breach of someone's copyright, it will come down to the license to use their software and what you're permitted to do with it.

As long as you are not using a beta version, you are licenced to use Adobe express content, including AI generated content for commercial use. The models are trained on licensed content or public domain images and are copyright free. While it’s gets a lot less clear on the finished image, depending on how much of the image you ‘created’ (eithe your own photography, or the act of producing the composite), if you are just using the AI content for the background then the copyright should reside with you, but in any event you are extremely unlikely to be violating anyone else’s.