While many artists see the training of AI image generators using unlicensed work as theft, but the UK High Court has just decided otherwise, and the case could influence future rulings and public policy.
Getty Images sued the AI developer Stability AI, claiming that it had committed secondary copy infringement by training the Stable Diffusion AI image model on millions of images taken from Getty's stock photo library. However, Judge Joanna Smith has mainly ruled in favour of Stability AI.
