Stable Diffusion maker, Midjourney stand victorious against lawsuit from artists

The slope of the legal battle which several artists initiated against AI companies like Stability AI and Midjourney seems to be reclining towards the companies as a judge dismissed claims made in the lawsuit in a ruling last week. 

The issue of the infringement of artists' copyrighted content is not new as it stretches back to the time when ChatGPT, the first major AI tool of the modern day, was released by OpenAI. 

The lawsuit for copyright infringement against Stability, the maker of Stable Diffusion AI image generator, was registered last year. Judge William Orrick, the same judge who had let the complaint be lodged, has rejected the claims penned down under the complaint and asked the artists’ attorneys to make them more detailing. 

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The complaint against copyright claim was pointed at DeviantArt, Runway AI (the initial startup behind Stable Diffusion), and Midjourney. 

Claims against Midjourney allege that the platform misled users with a “Midjourney Style List,” which included 4,700 artists whose artworks could be replicated in their style using their names. 

Among the claims that failed to induce Judge Orrick and were resent to be amended were arguments that the generators violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by removing or changing copyright management information and that DeviantArt had breached its terms of service by allowing users’ work to be scraped for AI training datasets.