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brought by photographer Jingna Zhang and illustrators Sarah Andersen, Hope Larson, and Jessica Fink takes Google to task for alleged copyright infringement after using datasets that include their works and those of "billions" of other people.
As the lawsuit details, the plaintiffs discovered that their work was part of Google's Imagen image generator's initial training data after Google. This "Large-Scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network," as the name suggests, contains some 400 million images and captions to help train image generators — including, as the artists note in their suit, their copyrighted work.
Just a few months after Imagen was released in beta to a select group of users, Andersen and a pair of other artistsof the image generators Midjourney and Stable Diffusion for using the LAION-400M dataset without their permission.
Because it was just filed, it'll be a while before these artists or the countless others watching these cases see anyfor the alleged misuse of their work — and in the meantime, Google, OpenAI, and every other AI company will keep doing so until the law forces them to stop.
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