The complaint can be downloaded here as a PDF.
The resulting images then compete with the originals on the open marketplace, flooding it with an endless number of copies or near copies that permanently damage artists’ ability to participate in the now-oversaturated marketplace. The claims: According to a post by the trio’s attorney Matthew Butterick, Stable Diffusion uses unauthorized copies of millions, if not billions, of copyrighted images to train a generative AI system to “remix these works to derive (or ‘generate’) more works of the same kind” without the knowledge or consent of the original artists. Three artists - Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz - have filed a class action lawsuit against Stability AI, Deviantart, and Midjourney for their use of the image-generating models Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, described by the complaint as “21st-century collage tool that remixes the copyrighted works of millions of artists whose work was used as training data.”
