Stable Diffusion's Training Data Contained Copyrighted Images
October 16, 2022
Stability AI reportedly scraped copyrighted images by Getty Images to be used as training data for Stable Diffusion model.
- Alleged deployer
- stability-ai
- Alleged developer
- runway, laion, eleutherai, compvis-lmu, stability-ai
- Alleged harmed parties
- getty-images, getty-images-contributors
Source
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