Stock photo platform Getty Images has once again sued Stability AI, the creator of the Stable Diffusion image generator, alleging copyright infringement.
The complaint — filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware — comes after Getty sued Stability in the U.K. last month.
- In
the latest lawsuit, Getty accused Stability of illegally using more
than 12 million images and other data to train Stable Diffusion without
first obtaining a license or permission.
- The suit alleges that Stability infringed on copyrights and Getty trademarks, noting that its AI system sometimes generates warped versions of the Getty watermark in its outputs.
- Getty has accused Stability of profiting off the photos on its platform and others.
- It has asked the courts to bar Stability from using the images and is also seeking monetary damages.
- A study of 12 million photos from Stable Diffusion's training dataset indicated that more than 15,000 of those photos came from Getty.
- Stable was first trained on a total of 2.3 billion images and then another 600 million for recent checkpoints.