Three artists have filed a lawsuit against Stability AI, Midjourney, the companies behind the artificial intelligence art generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, and DeviantArt, which just unveiled its own AI art generator called DreamUp. The three artists, Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz claim that these companies have violated the rights of “millions of artists,” by training their AI tools on five billion images scraped from the web “without the consent of the original artists.” Lawyer and typographer Matthew Butterick and the Joseph Saveri Law Firm, which focuses in antitrust and class action litigation, filed the claim. In a related lawsuit concerning the AI programming model CoPilot, which is educated using lines of code gathered from the internet, Butterick and Saveri are presently suing Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI. In a blog post announcing the suit, Butterick describes the case as “another step toward making AI fair & ethical for everyone.”...
