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• @jjvincent James Vincent on x

  A scoop from me: Getty Images is suing Stability AI, creators of Stable Diffusion. The stock photo site claims Stable Diffusion “unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright” and has “commenced legal proceedings” in London https://www.theverge.com/...

• @jjvincent James Vincent on x

  This is in its early stages — the full suit isn't public and Stability AI told me they haven't received it yet (will update when they do) — but it's a big escalation in terms of the copyright debate over generative AI models.

• @jjvincent James Vincent on x

  Worth noting Getty is targeting Stability AI, not other big players like OpenAI. One reason: we *know* there are Getty images in SD's training data ( https://waxy.org/...), whereas OAI doesn't disclose. though this is obvious from SD's tendency to recreate Getty's watermark... ht…

• @neilturkewitz Neil Turkewitz on x

  Another shoe drops in the fight to end the unauthorized taking of artists' work to build AI regenerative art models. There will be some that argue it's too late & others arguing it's too early. I'll just observe that it's about time to bend the arc of history towards justice. htt…

• @mutalenkonde @mutalenkonde on x

  The ethics in this field are non existent https://twitter.com/...

• @dannypostmaa Danny Postma on x

  Might have big implications if you're using Stable Diffusion. https://www.theverge.com/...

• @techwontsaveus @techwontsaveus on x

  “Getty Images is suing Stability AI, creators of popular AI art tool Stable Diffusion, over alleged copyright violation. ... It believes that Stability AI ‘unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright’ to train its software.” https://www.theverge.com/…

• @jjvincent James Vincent on x

  Getty Images CEO Craig Peters compares the situation to the early days of digital music. In this framing Stable Diffusion is Napster: popular but illegal. Peters says he doesn't want money but new status quo (presumably one with favorable licensing terms) https://theverge.com/...…

• @artofyorugami @artofyorugami on x

  Oho things are about to get INTERESTING!👀✨ https://twitter.com/...

• @anjahuja Anjana Ahuja on x

  This has happened faster than I thought it would, tbh https://twitter.com/...

• @adamhrv Adam Harvey on x

  .@GettyImages also feature prominently in face recognition training datasets, though has yet to be challenged there. Quick OCR analysis of VGGFace2 dataset shows there are at least 13,957 (add'l could be found w/better fuzzy text analysis + manual review) https://twitter.com/... …

• @toomuchistrue David C. Porter on x

  it's so perfect that this is being framed *by getty's ceo* as being analogous to the napster lawsuits, with image-synth spotify being the desired outcome. tells you everything you need to know about what the stakes are here, and which side is which https://twitter.com/...

• @alexjc @alexjc on x

  Getty Images “won” against big tech giant Google (forcing a settlement) on the topic of copyright-infringement in Search, so AFAIC the debate about whether there's validity to the claims against #StableDiffusion is over. How to move the debate to getting a constructive outcome? h…

• @jonlamart @jonlamart on x

  Here is the formal complaint in the Lawsuit against Stable Diffusion, Midjourney and DeviantArt on behalf of Karla Ortiz, Sarah Anderson and Kelly Mckernan. https://stablediffusionlitigation.com/ Links for pdf of complaint (with violations and exhibits above) #CreateDontScrape #a…

• @kortizart @kortizart on x

  2/ I am proud to be one of the plaintiffs named for this class action suit. I am proud to do this with fellow peers, that we'll give a voice to potentially thousands of affected artists. I'm proud that now we fight for our rights not just in the public sphere but in the courts!

• @jjvincent James Vincent on x

  Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt are being sued by a trio of artists who allege that the companies' AI art models violate copyright law —> this is the first major lawsuit I know of targeting AI art models and definitely one to watch https://www.theverge.com/...

• @alexjc @alexjc on x

  Can we just take a bit of time to fully dismantle this argument? It's a straw-man. Emad tries to justify violating the consent of artists and creators worldwide by virtue signalling. It's concealing the fact that making open/ custom/ personal AI is possible without violation. htt…

• @fadeinsoftware @fadeinsoftware on x

  Drag them. By which I mean sue them into a fine powder. https://www.theverge.com/...

• @jonst0kes @jonst0kes on x

  I think this is absolutely correct. I was looking at the list of plaintiffs in this Stability AI suite, & they were clearly very carefully selected. All three are indie artists, photogenic women with geek charm, have great stories, etc. https://stablediffusionlitigation.com/ ... …

• @emostaque Emad on x

  Putting aside $$s for a moment is there anyone who would rather have the next generation using closed, centralised, corporate-aligned AI versus open, customised and personally-aligned AI? It's a choice we can make right now at the start of this crazy takeoff 🛫 🚀 🌟

• @thebadlament @thebadlament on x

  Whichever side of the fence you are on, this rebuttal has some good explanations on how the tech works https://www.stablediffusionfrivolous.co m/

• @technollama Andres Guadamuz on x

  The team behind the Copilot litigation files a class-action lawsuit against Stability AI, DeviantArt, and Midjourney. Complaint here. https://stablediffusionlitigation.com/ ...

• @iron_spike @iron_spike on x

  Fuck yeah, GET 'EM https://twitter.com/...

• @kelly_mckernan Kelly McKernan on x

  I'm incredibly pleased to share my involvement in a class action lawsuit representing hundreds, if not thousands, of working artists whose life's work have been unethically scraped to train in AI image generators.

• @kortizart @kortizart on x

  3/ I am in awe of the excellent, efficient and detailed work of Joseph Saveri, Cadio Zirpoli, Travis Manfredi at the Joseph Saveri Law Firm and Matthew Butterick! They've brought up a hell of a case! I cannot wait to see them in action. We couldn't have chosen better fighters!

• @kelly_mckernan Kelly McKernan on x

  “It's a good day for artists.” 🥂 thank you @StevenZapata, this gives me so much life. https://twitter.com/...

• @coreybrickley Corey Brickley Illustration on x

  I remember early on when Midjourney started taking off I saw a reddit comment that was like “Now instead of colors, entire artists will be the pigments we use to create art” and thinking it was one of the most sickening, cynical things I'd ever read https://twitter.com/...

• @_lost_letters_ @_lost_letters_ on x

  There is definitely going to be an influx of AI dislike generally (and AI art hatred especially) with the new legal situation that was just revealed recently. Probably one of the most intense cycles to date. Take breaks. Take care of you. And know that you are not alone ✨

• @quasimondo Mario Klingemann💧💦 on x

  Looks to me like that class action against stable diffusion, midjourney and others is showing a blatant misunderstanding of their inner workings. If anyone they would either have to sue OpenAI for CLIP or LAION since those are the 3rd party components trained on the actual data.

• @finnjanson Finn Janson on x

  Pretty embarrasing post, regardless of the ethical validity of the lawsuit: 1. Midjourney doesn't use Stable Diffusion 2. Calling Diffusion models a “collage tool” shows little to no understanding of the tech Artists deserve better representation than this. #AIArtwork #ai https:/…

• @thecarteldel @thecarteldel on x

  MidJourney, Stability AI, and DeviantArt are now being sued in a class action lawsuit for using copyright art without permission for profit. https://twitter.com/...

• @katriadoodles @katriadoodles on x

  Best news I've heard in a long time!!! I have nothing but admiration and immense respect for this team and these wonderful artists. I believe in justice but no matter what happens I'll remain grateful for the fact they fought for all of us. Thank you ❤️ https://stablediffusionlit…

• @minimaxir Max Woolf on x

  It's very telling of their strategy that the Stable Diffusion lawsuit doesn't mention OpenAI at all given the historical sequence of facts they argue. https://stablediffusionlitigation.com/

• @mollycrabapple Molly Crabapple🇵🇷 on x

  My own artwork, that I paid to register with the US copyright office, was stolen by LAION to use in a dataset that these multimillion dollar tech companies are using to rip off my work. Thousands upon thousands of artists are in the same boat.

• @technollama Andres Guadamuz on x

  Artists file class-action lawsuit against https://stability.ai/, DeviantArt, and Midjourney https://www.technollama.co.uk/ ...

• @dlowd Daniel Lowd on x

  This is a pretty good summary of the misconceptions present in the Stable Diffusion/MidJourney/DeviantArt lawsuit. There may yet be an angle to show someone is liable for violating the rights of specific artists in training data, but this isn't it. https://www.stablediffusionfriv…

• @igorbrigadir @igorbrigadir on x

  Regardless of the technical misunderstanding or misrepresentation: this Stable Diffusion lawsuit https://www.stablediffusionfrivolous.co m/ is definitely something to watch. It touches on a lot of legally vague and currently murky legal interpretations of things to do with ML mod…

• @izzyz Israel Gonzalez-Brooks on x

  An annotated version of the lawsuit over Stable Diffusion with intuitive explanations of the weird technical processes. “...the author [of the complaint] has no conception at all of how diffusion models work.” https://www.stablediffusionfrivolous.co m/

• @kortizart @kortizart on x

  1/ As I learned more about how the deeply exploitative AI media models practices I realized there was no legal precedent to set this right. Let's change that. Read more about our class action lawsuit, including how to contact the firm here: https://stablediffusionlitigation.com/

• @jonst0kes @jonst0kes on x

  This amazing. Note the words “remix” and “collage.” I actually don't think they misunderstand this tech this badly; rather, these are they word games they plan to use on a jury to extract billions in damages. https://stablediffusionlitigation.com/ https://twitter.com/...

• @mariuswatz Marius Watz on x

  A class action lawsuit against Stable Diffusion, with three illustrators as plaintiffs and DeviantArt as one of the defendants? Could get messy, but might help hash out authorship in AI and what's acceptable AI practice. https://stablediffusionlitigation.com/ https://twitter.com/…

• @mrhelmut Thomas Altenburger on x

  What had to happen, is happening. Hopefully this kind of actions (likely not the last) will open cases for a more thorough legal framework and saner uses of generative AIs. Until we have that framework, I'd recommend to not use them (even in derivative form) in production. https:…

• @solar_sas @solar_sas on x

  This seems very different from the information I've learned about this process. Although if I squinted I could see how this might be analogous I'm skeptical this language is accurate. Any thoughts? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @zzsleeps @zzsleeps on x

  this sentence goes so hard I'm rooting for the awesome lawyer that wrote it https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @mollycrabapple Molly Crabapple on x

  There's finally a class action lawsuit challenging Stable Diffusion, the tool that big tech companies built on all our stolen artwork. I could not be more thrilled. @SarahCAnderson, @Kelly_McKernan and @kortizart, you are champions for all illustrators https://stablediffusionliti…