In January 2023, Getty Images accused Stability AI of scraping 12 million copyrighted images to train its image generation tool, and is demanding approximately $1.8 trillion in statutory damages. In December 2023, The New York Times brought a case against OpenAI and Microsoft alleging that millions of their articles were scraped by the platforms. Though the numbers have not been officially released, damages are expected to be worth billions of dollars.
Artists are taking matters into their own hands: the visual artists Sarah Anderson, Kelly McKernan and Karla Ortiz took Stability AI to court in California for downloading or otherwise acquiring copies of billions of copyrighted images-without the permission of the creators-to be used as 'training images' to act as a 'software library' for a variety of visual GenAI platforms.
In response, the photographer filed a lawsuit against LAION for copyright infringement in the German courts.
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