""Getty Images sued Stability AI in the UK back in January 2023, alleging a host of legal violations including primary and secondary infringement under UK copyright law, database right infringement, trademark infringement and passing off. Getty's claims focused on the Stable Diffusion deep learning AI model, which is trained by repeated exposure to massive data stores to transform written user prompts into synthesized images.""
""Justice Smith's ruling noted that, across various versions of Stable Diffusion, essential to this process is the iterative removal of noise from a random noise image to create an image semantically consistent with the written user prompt. In order to train Stable Diffusion, Getty claimed that Stability scraped data from millions of copyrighted works from Getty's websites without authorization. Following trial this June, Getty abandoned its primary infringement claim because it offered no evidence that Stable Diffusion's training and development took place in the""
A UK High Court decision in Getty Images v. Stability AI focused primarily on trademark claims while clarifying aspects of secondary copyright liability for generative AI. The court described Stable Diffusion's training and image-generation process as iterative denoising from random noise to match a written prompt. Getty alleged that Stability scraped millions of copyrighted works from its websites to train the model, but abandoned the primary infringement claim after failing to produce evidence that training and development occurred in the UK. The 205-page decision left several fundamental questions about primary copyright liability for AI unresolved.
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