Artists Sue Generative AI Providers for Copyright Infringement

Three artists have filed a lawsuit that accuses generative artificial intelligence providers Stability AI Ltd., DeviantArt Inc. and Midjourney Inc. of copyright infringement. 

The Verge reported the development today. The lawsuit, which was submitted to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, is structured as a class-action complaint. 

A generative AI model is a neural network that can produce images and other creative works such as essays. Stability AI, DeviantArt and Midjourney, the three companies named in the newly filed copyright lawsuit, offer generative AI services for producing images. The complaint alleges that companies’ services make unauthorized use of existing copyrighted images.

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