With the hype of Generative AI companies, many legal issues around Generative AI companies are coming up.
A trio of artists launched a lawsuit against Stability AI and Midjourney, creators of AI art generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, and artist portfolio platform DeviantArt, which recently created its own AI art generator, DreamUp. The artists — Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz — allege that these organizations have infringed the rights of “millions of artists” by training their AI tools on five billion images scraped from the web “without the consent of the original artists.” While the companies being sued are claiming their practices are covered under fair use.
As this is an unresolved area of law it will be interesting to see how courts rule on these areas. A court’s ruling on these could have huge ramifications in other applications of Generative AI.
To learn more, you can read more here: https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/16/23557098/generative-ai-art-copyright-legal-lawsuit-stable-diffusion-midjourney-deviantart
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