Will 2023 be the year of the AI lawsuit? https://t.co/OSwtdefTIq

— Mirabelle Jones (@mirabelle_jones) January 21, 2023

Artists are unhappy with the new AI programs, like MidJourney, creating artworks from their work:

“Artists have a right to say what happens to their hard-earned works. It’s clear from the way AI generators rolled out that there was never any consideration given to artists, our wishes, or our rights, and this is our only option to be heard.”

“It’s gross to me. They trained these models with our work. They took away our right to decide whether we wanted to be a part of this or not.”

A lawsuit filed against Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and DeviantArt is the first time that artists have challenged generative AI companies in court. Days after that lawsuit was filed, stock-image powerhouse Getty Images filed its own suit against Stability AI in London, claiming that the company “unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright and the associated metadata” to train its AI model.

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What do you think about these AI programs?