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Getty Images Stable Diffusion Copied 12M Copyrighted Images

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Getty Images has sued AI company stability AI over alleged copyright infringement.

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Getty alleges that stability AI stole 12 million of its copyrighted images and captions to train its AI image generator "Stable Diffusion".

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Getty is asking the court to have stability AI remove the images and pay up to $150,000 per infringed image.

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Getty has also started similar legal proceedings in the UK.

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Stable Diffusion is trained on the LAION dataset, a large open source project of scraped internet images.

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The lawsuit references a study showing that diffusion model AI image generators can recreate images from its training data.

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Some images generated by Stable Diffusion contain Getty's watermark due to how diffusion model AI generation works.

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Getty offered examples of its distorted watermark in the lawsuit.

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Gizmodo reached out to stability AI for comment, but there was no immediate response.

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If stability AI was found to have violated copyright on the 12 million images and was fined the maximum amount, the damages would be substantial.

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