Stock photo platform Getty Images has once again sued Stability AI, the creator of the Stable Diffusion image generator, alleging copyright infringement.

 

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. THE VERGE