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
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
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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
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.
