# Meet The Three Artists Behind A Landmark Lawsuit Against AI Art Generators

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/meet-the-three-artists-behind-a-landmark-lawsuit-against-ai-art-generators/
- Published: 2023-01-24T09:30:20-06:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Image caption — From left to right: Kelly McKernan, Karla Ortiz, and Sarah Andersen. (Attribution: Kelly McKernan. Karla Ortiz, Sarah Andersen.) Article by Pranav Dixit. BuzzFeed.News – January 20, 2023. Last year, Kelly McKernan, a 36-year-old artist from Nashville who uses watercolor and acrylic gouache to create original illustrations for books, comics, and games, entered their name into the website Have I Been Trained. That’s when they learned that some of their artwork was used to train Stable Diffusion, the free AI model that lets anyone generate professional-quality images with a simple text prompt. It powers dozens of popular apps like Lensa. […] Click here to view original web page at www.buzzfeednews.com