Monkey Meme/Même

I’m giving away what is set up for a DS106 Daily Create scheduled for April 29 (the link will not work until then) “Monkey Prompt. Monkey Create. Monkey No Copyright.” This is a fascinating, legendary, and before it happened, likely improbable story. I leave it for the unfamiliar to revert that situation with its detailed Wikipedia summary. But this came forward again recently, with a BBC story of what was originally a stake into what could not be copyrighted into a huge legal implication for generative AI, This monkey selfie will protect you from AI slop. If you read URLs you might notice that the original title would have been “The monkey selfie that predicted the ai age” (your slug is showing, BBC editors). For you, all this means that anything you create, from photos to drawings and writing, carries a special legal protection that machines can’t claim. In a world of endless AI output, your creativity counts as something distinct. When AI helps you along the way, the rules aren’t…