But not everyone is psyched about the change. According to The Verge, a trio of artists have launched a lawsuit against the creators of AI art generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney and artist portfolio platform DeviantArt, which has just created its own AI art generator, DreamUp.
The artists—Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz—allege that these organizations have infringed the rights of “millions of artists” by training their AI tools on five billion images scraped from the web “without the consent of the original artists.”
Whether or not these systems infringe on copyright law is a complicated question that experts say will need to be settled in the courts. The creators of AI art tools usually argue that the training of this software on copyrighted data is covered (in the US, at least) by the fair use doctrine. However, cases involving fair use still need to be litigated, and there are numerous complicated factors regarding AI art generators.
