2023-01-17
My own artwork, that I paid to register with the US copyright office, was stolen by LAION to use in a dataset that these multimillion dollar tech companies are using to rip off my work. Thousands upon thousands of artists are in the same boat.
The Verge
Getty Images plans to sue Stable Diffusion creator Stability AI in the UK over alleged copyright violation; unlike OpenAI, SD's training dataset is open source
Getty Images is suing Stability AI, creators of popular AI art tool Stable Diffusion, over alleged copyright violation.
My own artwork, that I paid to register with the US copyright office, was stolen by LAION to use in a dataset that these multimillion dollar tech companies are using to rip off my work. Thousands upon thousands of artists are in the same boat.
The Verge
A trio of artists sue Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt over AI art copyright; a firm suing Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI over Copilot filed the lawsuit
There's finally a class action lawsuit challenging Stable Diffusion, the tool that big tech companies built on all our stolen artwork. I could not be more thrilled. @SarahCAnderson, @Kelly_McKernan and @kortizart, you are champions for all illustrators https://stablediffusionlitigation.com/
The Verge
Getty Images plans to sue Stable Diffusion creator Stability AI in the UK over alleged copyright violation; unlike OpenAI, SD's training dataset is open source
Getty Images is suing Stability AI, creators of popular AI art tool Stable Diffusion, over alleged copyright violation.
There's finally a class action lawsuit challenging Stable Diffusion, the tool that big tech companies built on all our stolen artwork. I could not be more thrilled. @SarahCAnderson, @Kelly_McKernan and @kortizart, you are champions for all illustrators https://stablediffusionlitigation.com/
The Verge
A trio of artists sue Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt over AI art copyright; a firm suing Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI over Copilot filed the lawsuit
2023-01-16
There's finally a class action lawsuit challenging Stable Diffusion, the tool that big tech companies built on all our stolen artwork. I could not be more thrilled. @SarahCAnderson, @Kelly_McKernan and @kortizart, you are champions for all illustrators https://stablediffusionlitigation.com/
The Verge
A trio of artists sue Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt over AI art copyright; a firm suing Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI over Copilot filed the lawsuit
A trio of artists have launched a lawsuit against Stability AI and Midjourney, creators of AI art generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney …
My own artwork, that I paid to register with the US copyright office, was stolen by LAION to use in a dataset that these multimillion dollar tech companies are using to rip off my work. Thousands upon thousands of artists are in the same boat.
The Verge
A trio of artists sue Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt over AI art copyright; a firm suing Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI over Copilot filed the lawsuit
A trio of artists have launched a lawsuit against Stability AI and Midjourney, creators of AI art generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney …
2022-12-08
Neither DALL-E, nor Lensa, nor any of these other apps could exist without training their AI on the work of real, human artists, that they stole, without consent and without compensation. They generate nothing by themselves.
Washington Post
A look at Prisma Labs' Stable Diffusion-based portrait generation app Lensa, which launched in 2018 for $36 per year and took off after adding “magic avatars”
Social media is celebrating. Artists are protesting. What's the real cost of an AI-generated portrait?
2022-06-12
Creative revolution without those pesky creative artists. They just made an AI to kill the last surviving bits of the illustration industry. https://www.theverge.com/...
The Verge
A week with Dall-E 2, OpenAI's text-to-image AI tool that is in private research beta and feels like a breakthrough in the history of consumer tech
I remember the first time I Shazam'd a song, summoned an Uber, and streamed myself live using Meerkat. What makes these moments stand out …
2019-12-23
“officials noted that he was “broken hearted,” according to Facebook posts, and confirmed his identity through pictures posted at his father's birthday. ICE ultimately arrested the person after he “checked in” to a Home Depot on Facebook.” https://theintercept.com/...
The Intercept
Emails show how ICE uses datasets from data brokers like Thomson Reuters alongside social media sleuthing to track down suspected illegal immigrants
Emails sent by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials expose how ICE used social media and information gleaned by for-profit data brokers …