Subject to your compliance with our Terms, we assign to you all of our right, title, and interest—if any—in Outputs.
Originally it was not that way. They changed it because, as you suggested, their service has questionable utility without it.
The outstanding one is the “meaningful human input” part of copyright. The most recent ruling is that prompting alone does not count. If you write/rewrite sections, those are yours. Everything in between is a somewhat untested.
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Apparently, they use "own" in the same misleading way that digital media providers use "buy", but later remove the purchased content from my library.
It's named "yours" at the time of payment, but actually only a license to use under certain conditions.
If it's under someone else's license, then you can't copyright / patent the code generated from LLM in the commercial codebase.
This basically makes their AI useless.
Originally it was not that way. They changed it because, as you suggested, their service has questionable utility without it.
The outstanding one is the “meaningful human input” part of copyright. The most recent ruling is that prompting alone does not count. If you write/rewrite sections, those are yours. Everything in between is a somewhat untested.