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| As a contest owner, I've been grappling with this. I've tried to remain neutral and avoid rules around AI use in my activities, but fairness is ingrained in my bones. I fully support (and enthusiastically encourage!) AI for brainstorming and wording suggestions. But, in my opinion, once it rewrites what you wrote - tightens your prose, increases your pacing, and changes the voice of the author - even if it doesn't change the story itself, those paragraphs are no longer your original creation. The story is - that's the human element - but not the text. IMO, there's nothing inherently wrong with AI rewriting your work - until you publish it with your byline and stamp it with © Copyright 2026 Brandiwyn🎶 v.2026 (tuozzo at Writing.Com), because can you really copyright text you didn't write? In a contest setting, other authors are now competing with AI - and if you didn't disclose the AI rewrite, then your competitors don't even know it. I found an attorney's YouTube channel and a video where she addresses copyrighting in publishing of books where AI was used  . In it, she says (2:10-ish) that copyright "protects human creativity, not generated text," and that if you use AI to "brainstorm, outline or organize your own human-created content, then you can copyright the human-created portions of your work."I have no idea who this attorney is, and the video is 10 months old, so I tried to check US copyright law for myself: https://www.copyright.gov/ai/ Part 2 addresses copyrightability of AI-generated text. The summary of findings is on page 8 of the Part 2 report. Relevant bullet points:  Copyright protects the original expression in a work created by a human author, even if the work also includes AI-generated material. Whether human contributions to AI-generated outputs are sufficient to constitute authorship must be analyzed on a case-by-case basis. Human authors are entitled to copyright in their works of authorship that are perceptible in AI-generated outputs, as well as the creative selection, coordination, or arrangement of material in the outputs, or creative modifications of the outputsIn conclusion, that is where I'll draw the line for my competitive WDC events. My non-competitive events will remain neutral - use of AI, and to what extent, is entirely your choice. |
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