London AI firm says Getty copyright case poses ‘overt threat’ to industry

The Rolls building in central London, where the case is being heard. Getty alleges that Stability was ‘completely indifferent to what they fed into the training data’. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

A London-based artificial intelligence company, Stability AI, has claimed that a copyright case brought by the global photography agency Getty Images represents an “overt threat” to the generative AI industry.

Getty’s case against Stability AI for copyright and trademark infringement relating to its vast photography archives reached the high court in London on Monday.