Incident 451: Stable Diffusion's Training Data Contained Copyrighted Images
Description: Stability AI reportedly scraped copyrighted images by Getty Images to be used as training data for Stable Diffusion model.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Stability AI , Runway , LAION , EleutherAI and CompVis LMU developed an AI system deployed by Stability AI, which harmed Getty Images and Getty Images contributors.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
451
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2022-10-16
Editors
Khoa Lam
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Getty Images is suing Stability AI, creators of popular AI art tool Stable Diffusion, over alleged copyright violation.
In a press statement shared with The Verge, the stock photo company said it believes that Stability AI “unlawfully copie…

The AI suits are coming… Generative AI has blown up in the past year, with tools like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion garnering mainstream headlines. Image generators including OpenAI’s DALL-E and Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion “create” image…
Variants
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