Artists step onto the messy artificial intelligence battlefield with a new lawsuit.
We’ve talked a lot about AI here on the site. We love a new technology that could make things easier for filmmakers—from creating storyboards to cleaning up dialogue to casting—but it’s always been a little bit of a fuzzy line, and no one is sure when they’ve crossed into robot overlord territory. When does this content cease being “art,” and who gets credit for it? When is it stealing from something that already exists?
Well, some artists are taking a stand in a new class-action lawsuit to assert their copyrights and more.
The suit, filed over the weekend, names Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt as defendants, and accuses them of “direct copyright infringement, vicarious copyright infringement related to forgeries, violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), violation of class members’ rights of publicity, breach of contract related to the DeviantArt Terms of Service, and various violations of California’s unfair competition laws.” The plaintiffs are artists Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz.
Author: Jo Light
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
