AI Art Platform Hit With Copyright Lawsuit

Image caption: Getty Image’s announcement of legal proceedings against Stability AI follows a class action lawsuit against Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt filed by several artists and stakeholders. Image credit: Alice Adler via Getty Images. Article by Taylor Michael. Hyperallergic – January 18, 2023.

Getty Images says it has started legal proceedings against Stability AI, the company behind the generative AI art tool Stable Diffusion. In a statement on Tuesday, January 17, the stock photo company alleged that Stability AI infringed on Getty’s intellectual property rights. Stability AI used “millions of images protected by copyright and the associated metadata owned or represented by Getty Images” to train their software without proper licensing, reads the statement, shared with Hyperallergic. […]

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