A class action lawsuit has been filed in California against the largest image-generating AIs: Stability AI, Midjourney e DeviantArt: this by artists who claim that these companies have violated their copyright. The problem stems largely from theuse of copyrighted images found within massive catalogs of data used to train AI art generation tools of these companies, which are often used without the consent of the artists or any form of compensation.
The artists are represented by the Joseph Saveri law firm (via Ars Technica), who noted that Stable Diffusion and other image-generating AI products could not exist without the work of painters, illustrators, photographers, sculptors and other artists.
“…The creators of these image generators have infringed the rights of at least thousands of artists when recreating their various products. Proponents of AI-generated imagery have argued that the creation and use of these products is perfectly legal, but no court has yet addressed the issue.”
True, the tools of artistic generation AI come Stable Diffusion e Midjourney they rely on huge datasets to train their algorithms on how to produce new images based on input from humans. Without training, they would have no knowledge of what an art style is, what objects are, or have the information they need to do their job.
The thing is, those datasets are often made from copyrighted material. A company LAION sidesteps copyright claims by noting that its datasets are simply links to copyrighted material, not actual copies of images. True, it’s simply a matter of scouring the web for images and alt text, but the companies using that data are analyzing those images en masse for their own often commercial and money-value purposes. million dollars in funding for the company.
This will be an interesting case to keep an eye on, especially since any legal proceedings could form a basis for further court cases concerning l’IA. To continue reading other tech news, you can click who!
Class action lawsuit against AI image generators has been filed. From the team behind the Copilot lawsuit.https://t.co/kxfZgmuqrz
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