AI Art Generators Face a Copyright Infringement Lawsuit From Artists
The first step in the battle of copyrights vs AI
A group of artists is suing Midjourney, Stability AI, and DeviantArt, the companies behind some of the most popular AI art tools out there, for having “violated the rights of millions of artists” by using billions of internet images to train their AI art tools without the consent of artists and without compensating any of them.
Now, I know what you’re thinking, “Isn’t AI art just a bunch of algorithms and code?” And to that, I say, you are not wrong. But, as it turns out, these algorithms and code are being trained on billions of images from the internet, many of which are the copyrighted work of artists.
And these artists, well, they’re not too happy about it.
Who is suing the AI art companies?
The plaintiffs in this case are Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz, all of whom are artists whose work has probably been used to train these generative AI tools.
And they’re not just some no-name artists either, we’re talking about the creator of an insanely popular webcomic (Sarah’s Scribbles), a concept artist whose works have been featured in galleries, and a concept artist and illustrator…
