Getty Images has brought suit in London against Stability AI, creator of the wildly popular AI image generator Stable Diffusion alleging that the company "copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright." Part of the problem apparently stems from the fact that Stable Diffusion's training dataset is open source, and therefore there are no safeguards in place that would have prevented a large number of stock photos from having been incorporated into the dataset. If the accusations prove to be true - and an image posted online that was generated by Stable Diffusion containing the Getty logo certainly gives credence to them - Stability AI may be required to pay huge sums in damages for failure to properly license Getty's images.
Nor is this the only lawsuit Stability AI faces. Attorney Matthew Butterick has filed a class action lawsuit in US District Court for Northern California, San Francisco Division on behalf of three artists who allege their work has been misappropriated by Stability AI, Deviant Art (creator of DreamUp), and Midjourney.
Both these cases will be closely watched as their disposition must inevitably affect the future of AI generated imagery.
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