Right?? It's bizarre to me that otherwise-smart-seeming people will think they can write "explain your reasoning" to the AI and it will explain its reasoning.

Yes, it will write some fluent response that reads as an explanation of its reasoning. But you may not even be talking to the same model that wrote the original text when you get the "explanation".

Because it's right more often than google? I swear you AI critics aren't actually using AI.

In case you missed it, courts have ruled that works produced by AI cannot have copyright, because it was not made by a human.

Courts have ruled that art that was 100% generated by AI cannot be copyrighted by the AI, because the AI is not a human person.

The same courts have also ruled that works that were assisted by AI but created by a human can be copyrighted by that human.

So, can you claim copyright in an AI-generated work in Canada? As of 2025, the safest answer is: only if a human author contributed substantial creative effort to the final work. There needs to be some human “skill and judgment” or creative spark for a work to be protected.

If the AI was just a tool in your hands, for instance, you used AI to enhance or assemble content that you guided then your contributions are protected and you are the author of the overall work. But if an AI truly created the material with you providing little more than a prompt or idea, the law may treat that output as having no human author, and thus no copyright.

Thankfully real life is far more nuanced than "fuck ai" allows.