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Artists’ lawsuit against Stability AI and Midjourney gets more punch
A number of other suits are still pending.
Numerous suits have been filed against AI companies, alleging that tools like Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT easily reproduce copyrighted works and are illegallytrained on huge volumes of them. At the same time, OpenAI, Google, and other tech giants have struck multimillion-dollar deals with publishers ( including Verge parent Vox Media) and photo providers for ongoing data access. Small companies like Stability and Midjourney have less money to buy access to data, and individual artists have less leverage to demand payments — so for both sides of this dispute, the legal stakes are particularly high.
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