Using AI, you can still own the rights in some scenario’s as long as the AI doesn’t use inputs that it doesn’t have the rights to.

This is still very much a gray area. I can understand stating that you cannot copyright AI generated content right now, but who even should own the rights for such content?

Generative AI’s are using such a broad variety of training data form various different sources that it’s impossible to prove that one piece of generated content is actually using some specific piece of copyrighted content as an inspiration. Images generated with prompts of super mario would be affected by source content completely unrelated to super mario.

Additionally at what point is the AI intelligent enough, that it can create original content? If a human was to look at a thousand paintings, and then created one inspired by those paintings, the human would own the copyright for their own work. How is training a neural network different from looking at existing work? It’s simply learning ques from existing material and using that as a baseline for creating new content with the user’s guidance.