Stable Diffusion Allegedly Used Artists' Works without Permission for AI Training
November 20, 2022
Text-to-image model Stable Diffusion was reportedly using artists' original works without permission for its AI training.
- Alleged deployer
- stability-ai, lensa-ai, midjourney, deviantart
- Alleged developer
- stability-ai, runway, lensa-ai, laion, eleutherai, compvis-lmu
- Alleged harmed parties
- digital-artists, artists-publishing-on-social-media, artists
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/421
Data source
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