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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Callum Parke

Getty Images’ legal action against AI firm is ‘day of reckoning’

The US-based visual content company is suing Stability AI Limited in London - (Getty)

The High Court has heard that Getty Images’ legal action against an AI firm over alleged copyright infringement marks a “day of reckoning” for the use of photographs in training AI models.

The US-based visual content company is suing Stability AI Limited in London, alleging that the firm unlawfully scraped millions of images from Getty’s websites without consent to train its Stable Diffusion AI model.

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