A federal judge tossed most claims filed by a group of artists against the makers of artificial intelligence software that generates images based on text prompts, finding the claims were too conclusory to survive.
The artists sued Stability AI, Midjourney and DeviantArt over the use of Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image AI tool created by Stability AI.
According to the January complaint, the companies were using the plaintiffs' images to train Stable Diffusion without paying the artists or getting consent to use their work as training images, and the resulting images continue to compete against the human artists' work in the marketplace.
