![]() The group is seeking a jury trial and unspecified damages.ĪI- generated art has grown in prominence since last summer, as tools like Stable Diffusion and Midjourney became available for broad use. The Stable Diffusion litigation blog describes Stable Diffusion, and generative AI like it, as “a parasite that, if allowed to proliferate, will cause irreparable harm to artists, now and in the future.” Read more about our class action lawsuit, including how to contact the firm here: - Karla Ortiz January 15, 2023Īttorney Matthew Butterick filed the suit, working with Joseph Saveri Law Firm, a California-based firm specializing in antitrust and class-action law. ![]() Ortiz is a concept artist and illustrator whose clients include Marvel Film Studios and Wizards of the Coast.ġ/ As I learned more about how the deeply exploitative AI media models practices I realized there was no legal precedent to set this right. McKernan is a full-time artist whose works have been featured in galleries and who makes illustrations for comics, books, and games. Andersen is the creator of popular webcomic Sarah’s Scribbles. ![]() The three plaintiffs are artists whose work has been used to train these generative AI tools. “The harm to artists is not hypothetical,” the suit says, noting that works created by generative AI art are “already sold on the internet, siphoning commissions from the artists themselves.” The suit alleges that these companies “violated the rights of millions of artists” by using billions of internet images to use train its AI art tool without the “consent of artists and without compensating any of those artists.” These companies “benefit commercially and profit richly from the use of copyrighted images,” the suit alleges. A group of artists - Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz - have filed a class-action lawsuit against Midjourney and Stability AI, companies behind AI art tools Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, and DeviantArt, which recently launched its own artificial intelligence art generator, DreamUp.
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