That's another way courts could go. But once again that would make life very hard for billionaires. So not a chance.

No, that’s already where it’s gone <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence_and_co...>, continuing the tradition established before AI <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...>. The machine output is not directly copyrightable.