Incident 629: Shein Accused of AI-Driven Art Theft on Merchandise
Description: Artists Krista Perry, Larissa Martinez, and Jay Baron filed a lawsuit against Shein, alleging the company used AI to replicate their art on merchandise. The artists claim Shein's algorithm identifies trending online art, creating near-identical copies for their products without credit or compensation.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Shein developed an AI system deployed by Shein and Chris Xu, which harmed Krista Perry , Larissa Martinez , Jay Baron and digital artists.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
629
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2023-07-11
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
artnews.com · 2023
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Three artists have accused fast-fashion online retailer Shein of deploying an algorithm to recreate their designs on merchandise, bolstering concerns around artificial intelligence infringing on intellectual property.
In a lawsuit against S…
techcrunch.com · 2023
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A group of designers are suing Shein, the Chinese fast-fashion firm reportedly valued at $66 billion, for allegedly stealing independent artists’ works “over and over again, as part of a long and continuous pattern of racketeering.”
The des…
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.