AI-generated "Voynich manuscript pages"

[farmerjohn]

Is the AI program the "author" of the pages we see in this string?  There is already caselaw that a computer program cannot be an "author." But if not the computer program, then who?  The human coder(s) of the program?  The person who enters the parameters?  A combination?  

I think the situation here is analogous to compiler/source code/binary file problem. The author of the compiler is obviously not the author of the binary code produced (although thanks to tricky licensing they may hold the copyright?).

In our case AI engine is the compiler, and the prompt is the source code. The short length of the prompt by MarcoP (["A page from the Voynich manuscript", "ancient manuscript"]) is somewhat misleading, but even there he used "a page form Voynich manuscript", not merely "the Voynich manuscript". When the technology advances, the role of prompt and other parameters will be more distinct.