Getty Images largely lost its London lawsuit against artificial intelligence company Stability AI over its image generator on Tuesday, prompting Getty and some lawyers to call for stronger protections for copyright owners in Britain.
Seattle-based Getty, which produces editorial content and creative stock images and video, accused Stability AI of using its images to “train” its Stable Diffusion system, which generates images from text inputs.
The company had sued Stability AI for breach of copyright on the grounds Stable Diffusion was trained using Getty’s images, and that images generated by Stable Diffusion reproduced its copyrighted images.
