Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Three artists have filed a lawsuit against AI painting companies Stability AI and Midjourney and artist platform DeviantArt on the grounds that these organizations have infringed the copyright of the works of "millions of artists".

Stability AI, Midjourney and DeviantArt have all introduced so-called AI art generators, called Stable Diffusion, Midjourney and DreamUp, respectively.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit, including Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan and Karla Ortiz, allege that the groups violated the copyright of millions of artists by using 5 billion images captured online to train their AI tools "without the consent of the original artist".

The lawyers they commissioned are Matthew Patrick (Matthew Butterick) and Joseph Saville, which sued Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI in November for infringing the copyright of many GitHub programmers on the grounds that their AI programming model, GitHub Copilot.

In a blog post about the latest lawsuit, Patrick described the case as "another step for AI to ensure fairness and benefit to all." AI art tools like Stable Diffusion could "flood the market with almost unlimited number of infringing images, which will cause permanent damage to the art market and artists," he said.

In the past year, the popularity of AI painting tools has caused strong repercussions in the art world. While some people think that these tools may help, like software such as Photoshop and Illustrator, more people object to using their works to train these moneymaking tools.

The so-called generative AI art model is trained using billions of pictures collected from the Internet, usually without the creator's knowledge or consent. These AI art generators can then generate works of art that match the style of a particular artist.

Experts say whether these AI systems violate copyright law is a complex issue that needs to be decided by judges. But the creators of AI art tools often argue that the software's training using copyrighted data is in line with the principle of "fair use", at least in the US. However, many complexities have been added when it comes to the AI art generator.

These factors include the location of companies that support these AI tools because of the slightly different legal permits for data capture in the European Union and the United States, and the purpose of these companies, such as Stable Diffusion training using LAION datasets, which was created by a not-for-profit research institute based in Germany, and in fair use cases, non-profit organizations may be more likely to receive preferential treatment than ordinary companies.

However, the lawsuit has also been criticized for its lack of rigorous wording. For example, the lawsuit alleges that AI art models "store compressed copies of copyrighted training images" and then "reassemble" them as a "21st century collage tool". However, the AI art model actually does not store images at all, but rather stores the mathematical representation of the images collected from those images. Instead of piecing together images in the form of collages, such software creates images from scratch based on these mathematical representations.

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