2023年1月20日

新聞和股票媒體服務Getty Images已經采取了起訴合成媒體初創公司Stability AI的第一步，聲稱其Stable Diffusion開源文本到圖像模型違反了版權法。蓋蒂正在向倫敦高等法院提起侵犯知識產權的訴訟。Stability AI已經麵臨著另一場重大的法律戰，本周開始，一群藝術家在加州對它提起集體訴訟，同時起訴的還有Stable Diffusion平台Midjourney和DeviantArt。蓋蒂公司聲稱，“穩定AI”使用受版權保護的圖像來訓練“穩定擴散AI”模型，違反了知識產權規則。用於訓練“穩定擴散”的LAION-5B數據集中的數十億張圖片中，有一些可能是從網絡(包括Getty的服務器)上刮下來的，而它們的創作者並不知情。蓋蒂和集體訴訟案提出的法律問題是，這樣做是否違反了版權法。值得注意的是，Stability AI表示，任何藝術家的作品都可以選擇退出，因為他們的作品可能會被用於訓練新的穩定擴散迭代。去年，Getty正式禁止其服務器上的任何人工智能生成的圖像，並開始刪除它發現的任何圖像，從而暴露了它對生成式人工智能潛在侵犯版權的態度。蓋蒂沒有提到任何經濟補償，也沒有提及關閉Stable Diffusion的意願。相反，該公司似乎想強製更新知識產權規則和法規，以解決生成式人工智能的問題。 “It is Getty Images’ position that Stability AI unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright and the associated metadata owned or represented by Getty Images absent a license to benefit Stability AI’s commercial interests and to the detriment of the content creators,” Getty wrote in an official statement announcing the lawsuit. “Getty Images believes artificial intelligence has the potential to stimulate creative endeavors. Accordingly, Getty Images provided licenses to leading technology innovators for purposes related to training artificial intelligence systems in a manner that respects personal and intellectual property rights. Stability AI did not seek any such license from Getty Images and instead, we believe, chose to ignore viable licensing options and long‑standing legal protections in pursuit of their stand‑alone commercial interests.” Getty’s AI Image Future The “leading technology innovators” Getty mentions is likely to include Getty’s collaboration with generative AI image startup Bria. Bria’s platform can produce images from text prompts, as well as provide fine-tuning them to add, move, or delete objects, change the age and expression of people in the picture, or move them to a new setting entirely. Getty plans to implement a version of Bria in its iStock subsidiary, where those who pay to license a photo can then adjust it with Bria’s AI, but only using images that users have paid for and credited as they would any standard stock photo. “Our partnership with Bria further demonstrates Getty Images’ commitment to innovate in support of the creativity of our customers,” Getty Images CEO Craig Peters said in a statement at the time. “This partnership and our deployment is also one that we hold to the highest ethical standards and respecting of the intellectual property and personal privacy rights of others.”