It is embroiled in a lawsuit with Getty Images in which it is accused of stealing millions of photos to build its AI image generator, but Stability AI says that it is working on a platform that would allow copyright holders to license their work to AI model developers. [Read More]
Getty Images has dropped its primary copyright infringement claims against AI image company Stability AI in a high-profile legal battle at London’s High Court. [Read More]
Content creators are having an unexpected boon: artificial intelligence companies are buying their unpublished videos for training purposes. [Read More]
Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic, and Salesforce have all been caught using YouTube data to build their AI models with.
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The CEO of Microsoft AI Mustafa Suleyman has shown an alarming ignorance of copyright law after he claimed that all content on the open web is fair use. [Read More]
During an interview at Bloomberg's Tech Summit last Thursday, Meta's chief product officer Chris Cox said that Instagram and Facebook have an advantage in the generative AI space because of all the "public" photos available to them. [Read More]
AI has an image problem. Hollywood won't admit to using it -- even though it is. Copyright battles are taking place in law courts, and things aren't going well for creators. [Read More]
Thomson Reuters has won an early victory for copyright holders after Judge Sephanos Bibas, sitting in the U.S. District Court of Delaware, granted a partial summary in favor of the company in its copyright infringement lawsuit against Ross Intelligence. [Read More]
Elon Musk and former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever say that AI companies have run out of real-world data to train generative models on. [Read More]
The open-source LAION-5B dataset used to train AI image generators has been re-released after it was pulled last year when child sex abuse material (CSAM) was discovered among the billions of pictures. [Read More]
Image and video hosting website Photobucket is reportedly in talks with generative artificial intelligence companies to license its content for the purposes of training algorithms. [Read More]
A photographer whose name was found on a list of artists whose style the AI image generator Midjourney wanted to emulate tells PetaPixel that "creatives must be remunerated." [Read More]
The best-known dataset for training AI image generators, LAION-5B, has removed its service after a Stanford study found thousands of child sex abuse images in its library. [Read More]
A judge in California has largely dismissed copyright claims brought by three artists against AI image generators Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and DeviantArt. [Read More]
A study has found that training AI image generators with AI images produces bad results.
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OpenAI says that the viral Chinese AI app DeepSeek may have siphoned off massive amounts of data to build its models.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) might be running into a cul-de-sac thanks to data shortages and technological constraints, according to a report from Bloomberg. [Read More]
A disturbing report has revealed that personal photos of Brazilian children have been included in a major image library used to train AI image generators. [Read More]
The rise of generative AI means that huge archives of photographs and videos are suddenly valuable with the current situation being compared to a gold rush, but which platforms are licensing their content to large tech firms for the purposes of training AI models? [Read More]
AI image generators are trained on millions -- even billions -- of photos. It is safe to assume the vast majority of these photos are copyrighted and used without permission. [Read More]