Three AI companies have asked a US court to dismiss copyright lawsuits: AI produces images that are not similar to the artist's work
According to reports in the morning of April 20, Beijing time, a group of artists accused artificial intelligence company Stability AI, commercial artificial intelligence image generation service Midjourney and DeviantArt, a large international community website showing users of all kinds of works of art, of infringing their copyright by using their works in generative artificial intelligence systems. On Tuesday, three companies fought back.
The companies asked the federal court in San Francisco to dismiss the class action brought by the artist. The companies believe that the images generated by artificial intelligence are not similar to the artist's work, and that the lawsuit does not identify specific images suspected of copyright infringement.
A lawyer for Midjourney declined to comment. Representatives of Stability, DeviantArt and the artist did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
In January, Sarah Andersen,Kelly McKernan and Karla Ortiz sued the companies. The artists claim that the companies violated their rights by copying their work without authorization to train the system and creating AI-generated images in their style.
Stability said in the filing that the artists "failed to identify any output images suspected of infringement, let alone images that were essentially similar to any of their copyrighted works." According to the Midjourney filing, the lawsuit did not "identify any of the plaintiffs' works" and "may be used as training data".
DeviantArt allows users to create images through Stability's Stable Diffusion system. The company also responded to these views, saying it was not responsible for alleged misconduct by artificial intelligence companies.
"even on the surface of the plaintiff's claim, DeviantArt has not done anything that might give rise to the liability of the plaintiff's claim," the company said.
