Getty Images Sues Stability AI Over Copyright Infringement

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Getty Images CEO Craig Peters states the company is spending millions fighting Stability AI, which allegedly scraped over 12 million copyrighted images to train its Stable Diffusion model. Getty argues this use of their assets amounts to unfair competition and infringes intellectual property rights.[AI generated]

Why's our monitor labelling this an incident or hazard?

The event explicitly involves an AI system (Stable Diffusion) trained on copyrighted images without permission, leading to alleged harm in the form of intellectual property rights violations and unfair competition. The use of AI in this context directly relates to the harm claimed by Getty Images. Since the harm is realized and legal action is underway, this fits the definition of an AI Incident rather than a hazard or complementary information.[AI generated]
AI principles
AccountabilityFairnessPrivacy & data governanceTransparency & explainabilityRespect of human rights

Industries
Media, social platforms, and marketingArts, entertainment, and recreation

Affected stakeholders
Business

Harm types
Economic/PropertyReputational

Severity
AI incident

Business function:
Research and development

AI system task:
Content generation


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