Getty Images also sues Stability AI for copyright infringement with Stable Diffusion

The Getty Images agency has sued Stability AI, responsible for the tool stable diffusionfor stealing photographic content and violating the copyright of these works integrated into its photo bank.

The company accuses this developer of solutions based on artificial intelligence (AI) for infringe intellectual property rights, illegally copy and process”millions of protected images”as commented in a statement.

Specifically, Stable Difussion technology is a machine learning model that is used to generate high-quality digital images from a text description.

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Getty Images has announced that it has commenced legal proceedings in London’s High Court of Justice against Stability AI. for having deliberately and improperly used its material.

From The Verge they point out that the CEO of Getty Images, Craig Peters, has advanced in an interview that the company has issued a letter “before the action”, that is, a formal notification of impending litigation in the United Kingdom.

At the moment, it is unknown if this accusation will also be transferred to the United States, where the company’s headquarters reside, which has not announced whether it also plans to carry out these legal procedures in this other country.

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According to the photographic agency, in addition to stealing millions of images with copyright credits from its image bank, the company that developed this tool has also used “the metadata associated with the property or represented by the agency without a license to benefit“your business interests”to the detriment of content creators”.

In this statement, the company has stressed that “believes that AI has the potential to stimulate creative endeavors” and that, accordingly, granted licenses “to leading technology innovators for purposes related to the training of artificial intelligence systems”.

Consequently, Getty acknowledges that it expected the intellectual and personal property rights of the creators and authors of the photographs it houses in its catalog to be respected.. However, he accuses Stability AI of not looking for “no such license from Getty Images”.

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“Instead, we believe you chose to ignore viable licensing options and longstanding legal protections in pursuit of your independent business interests.”, he has pointed out in this text.

It should be remembered that this It is not the first time that Stability AI has been involved in accusations related to the violation of copyright in artistic works developed by AI.

Recently, a group of artists have filed a class action lawsuit against this and two other companies, DevianArt and Midjourneyalso dedicated to digital art, for using without their consent copyrighted creations included in the LAION5-B image bank.

Source: Elcomercio

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