AI image creator faces UK and US legal challenges

Getty Images, one of the worlds biggest picture agencies, is taking action against the makers of artificial-intelligence image-creation tool Stability AI. The agency, which sells the rights to use photographers’ and illustrators’ images, said Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion system had infringed these. “Stability AI unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright… to the detriment of the content creators” and “chose to ignore viable licensing options and long‑standing legal protections”, Getty alleges.

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