GETTY ARGUES ITS LANDMARK UK COPYRIGHT CASE DOES NOT THREATEN AI. 

“LONDON (Reuters) -Getty Images’ landmark copyright lawsuit against artificial intelligence company Stability AI began at London’s High Court on Monday, with Getty rejecting Stability AI’s contention the case posed a threat to the generative AI industry.

Seattle-based Getty, which produces editorial content and creative stock images and video, accuses Stability AI of using its images to “train” its Stable Diffusion system, which can generate images from text inputs.

Getty, which is bringing a parallel lawsuit against Stability AI in the United States, says Stability AI unlawfully scraped millions of images from its websites and used them to train and develop Stable Diffusion.

Stability AI – which has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in funding and in March announced investment by the world’s largest advertising company, WPP – is fighting the case and denies infringing any of Getty’s rights.

Before the trial began on Monday, Stability AI’s spokesperson said “the wider dispute is about technological innovation and freedom of ideas”.

“Artists using our tools are producing works built upon collective human knowledge, which is at the core of fair use and freedom of expression,” the spokesperson said.

In court filings, Stability AI lawyer Hugo Cuddigan said Getty’s lawsuit posed “an overt threat to Stability’s whole business and the wider generative AI industry”.

Getty’s lawyers said that argument was incorrect and their case was about upholding intellectual property rights.

“It is not a battle between creatives and technology, where a win for Getty Images means the end of AI,” Getty’s lawyer Lindsay Lane told the court.

She added: “The two industries can exist in synergistic harmony because copyright works and database rights are critical to the advancement and success of AI … the problem is when AI companies such as Stability want to use those works without payment.”

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