Can I use AI to enhance my own Images?

Question

I understand AI art isn't copyright material. However, I am curious if the creator generates AI versions of the creation are those AI versions the copyright of the creator? I'm not sure how else to word this. I also didn't see any obvious answers.

Answer 1

AI neither creates nor removes copyright. Legally, an AI improving images is the same as a spellchecker improving written texts.

Answer 2

AIs create copies, not derivative works

If you have a photograph in which copyright exists, then the human photographer owns the copyright (barring transfers or work for hire). They are the only one who are allowed to make copies of that photograph.

Passing it through an automated enhancement, is making a copy and the copy has the same copyright as the original. It is not a derivative work because there is no human author, so it doesn’t have an independent copyright.