Getty Images Sues Stability AI Over Art Generator IP Violations

Feb. 6, 2023, 4:13 PM UTC

Visual media company Getty Images accused Stability AI Inc. of using more than 12 million Getty photos without permission or compensation—the latest copyright and trademark lawsuit against the use of artificial intelligence tools to generate art.

The complaint, filed Feb. 3 in the US District Court for the District of Delaware, follows IP litigation that Getty brought against Stability AI last month in the UK.

Stability AI unlawfully used Getty’s copyrighted images and associated text and meta-data to train its AI text-to-image tool Stable Diffusion, the most recent lawsuit says.

The case is one of several addressing the murky ...

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