HWcase1

Sources of Case:
1. www.reuters.com/legal/getty-images-lawsuit-says-stability-ai-misused-photos-train-ai-2023-02-06/

2. newsroom.gettyimages.com/en/getty-images/getty-images-statement

3. https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/analysis/getty-images-v-stability-ai-implications-copyright-law-licensing

 

Important Facts:

1. Getty Images sued Stability AI in January 2023, claiming that the business had trained its AI model, Stable Diffusion, using more than 12 million of Getty's photos without authorization.

2. Getty Images claims that Stability AI violated its intellectual property rights by stealing millions of photos from its website without getting permissions.

3. These pictures were used by Stability AI to create Stable Diffusion, a generative AI model that can produce new images from the data it has been trained on.

4. The case, which was brought before the London-based High Court of Justice, represents a major legal dispute over the use of copyrighted content in AI training datasets.

5. The rules governing copyright and compensation in the creative industries may change as a result of this lawsuit, which might provide a precedent for how intellectual property laws relate to AI-generated material.

Discussion Questions:

• What moral issues arise when AI models are trained using copyrighted content without express consent?
• How can the protection of content creators' intellectual property rights and the promotion of innovation in AI development be balanced?
• What rules or regulations might be put in place to guarantee moral behavior in the creation and application of generative AI models?

Standard Questions:

• What does virtue ethics say about this case?
• What does utilitarianism say about this case?
• What does deontology say about this case?