A class action lawsuit has been filed in the US against stable AI and other AI art generators. If they violate copyright law, could that put an end to AI-generated art? What are the real problems? An attorney explains in this eye-opening video.
You may have heard that in January 2023, Getty Images in the United Kingdom sued Stability AI for taking millions of photos from its image library. Getty Images believes that the AI art creator has bypassed copyright law to pursue its independent commercial interests.
You, like many others, may be using these services. You may be wondering that they are fun to experiment with, aren’t the source images copyrighted? Stable diffusion, owned by Stability AI, uses images as training data to generate image-to-image translations guided by text prompts. If using an image source like this is a violation of copyright law, the consequences are huge. Free AI Generator is no different. How machine learning works and how it actually discards the source image is a complicated matter. Watch the full video with helpful explanations of legal issues with AI and possible concepts on the part of AI creators, such as fair use.
