Is AI-generated output copyrightable? Should it be?

In my opinion, AI generated output should be copyrightable as long as, and only if, the person using AI prompted it to generate the output based on an idea they originally had. If the idea itself was AI generated, I don't think it deserves copyright. But if the idea was original and AI was just used as a system to do the heavy lifting (coding etc.), then I don't see an issue with being able to copyright the output. This is just my opinion.

Suno (an AI music site) specifies in their FAQ that the music isn't copyrightable. But your lyrics might be. And if you put a project together (and album or whatever) then that might also be. If you orchestrate a video for it, that is likely copyrightable. But the music itself isn't, since it was an algorithm based on a lot of other people's work that made that happen - not your skill or effort.

People who use AI to improve their own work most definitely have an argument that they own a copyright to the output. But in this case, they might only have claim to the lyrics, for example.