It goes further than that. Kris Kashtanova made a comic book named "Zarya of the Dawn" using midjourney for all the art. When registering for copyright she claimed copyright over the art for herself, under the theory that she was prompting the AI, and it was just a tool. When the copyright office learned about this they revoked her copyright registration[1]. The view of the copyright office is that this is no different than the photographs taken by the monkey - the monkey can't claim copyright because they are not human, and the owner of the camera can't claim copyright because they didn't have sufficient creative input, so the work is ineligible for copyright at all.
She is eligible for copyright on the text she wrote, the composition and editing performed on the images, but not the raw output of the AI.
She is eligible for copyright on the text she wrote, the composition and editing performed on the images, but not the raw output of the AI.
[1]https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/us-co...