thaler
Americannoun
plural
thaler, thalersnoun
Etymology
Origin of thaler
From German, dating back to 1780–90; dollar
Example Sentences
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On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to take up a lawsuit in which artist and computer scientist Stephen Thaler tried to copyright an artwork that he acknowledged had been created by an AI bot of his own invention.
From Los Angeles Times
Thaler wrote in his application for a copyright that the “author” of the work was his “Creativity Machine,” an AI tool, and that the work was “created autonomously by machine.”
From Los Angeles Times
But Thaler says it’s the AI bot’s creation and wasn’t generated in response to any user prompt.
From Los Angeles Times
Millett noted that Thaler hadn’t bothered to conceal the non-human origin of “A Recent Entrance,” acknowledging in court papers that the painting “lacks human authorship.”
From Los Angeles Times
She rejected Thaler’s argument, as had the federal trial judge who first heard the case, that the Copyright Office’s insistence that the author of a work must be human was unconstitutional.
From Los Angeles Times
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