> It's equivalent to trying to sue a compression codec because a specific archive contains a copyrighted image.

This is the most salient point in this whole HN thread!

You can’t sue Stable Diffusion or the creators of it! That just seems silly.

But (I don’t know I’m not a lawyer) there might be an argument to sue an instance of Stable Diffusion and the creators of it.

I haven’t picked a side of this debate yet, but it has already become a fun debate to watch.