Stability, Midjourney and Runway fight back in AI art lawsuit

THE class action Copyright trial deposit by artists against companies provide AI picture And video generators And their underlying machine learning (ML) models has taken A new turn, And he seems as THE AI companies to have a few convincing arguments as has Why they are not responsible, And Why THE artists' case should be abandoned (warnings below).

Yesterday, lawyers For THE accused Stability AI, Half-way, Track, And Deviant art deposit A gust of new movements — including a few has dismiss THE case entirely — In THE WE. District Court For THE North District of California, which supervises San Francis, THE heart of THE wider generative AI boom (This despite THE do that Track East Headquartered In New York City).

All THE companies research variously has 1. introduce new evidence has support both. complaints that THE class action Copyright offense case deposit against them last year by A handle of visual artists And photographers should be abandoned entirely And rejected with prejudices.

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THE case was initially deposit A little more that A year There is by visual artists Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, And Karla Ortiz. In late October 2023, Judge William H. Orrick rejected of most of THE artists' original offense complaints, noting that In a lot instances, THE artists doesn't In fact seek Or receive Copyright Since THE WE. Copyright Desk on their it works.

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However, THE judge guest THE plaintiffs has reclassify A amended claim, which they did In late November 2023, with a few of THE original plaintiffs drop out And new those socket their place And add has THE class, including other visual artists And photographers — among them, Hawke Southworth, Grzegorz Rutkowski, Gregory Without sleeves, Gerald Bromine, Jinna Zhang, Julia Kaye, And Adam Ellis.

In A nutshell, THE artists argue In their trial that THE AI businesses, by scraping THE works of art that THE artists' publicly job on their websites And other online forums, Or obtaining them Since research data base (to know THE controversial LAION-5B, which was find has include not just connections has protected by copyright works, but Also child sexual abuse material, And summarily deleted Since public to access on THE the Web) And using them has form AI picture generation models that can produce new, very similar works, East A offense of their Copyright on said original works of art. THE AI companies did not seek authorisation Since THE artists has scratch THE artwork In THE First of all place For their data sets, neither did they provide attribution Or compensation.

THE companies' new counter argument largely boils down has THE do that THE AI models they TO DO Or offer are not themselves copies of any of them work of art, but instead, reference THE works of art has create A entirely new product