Getty sues Stability AI for copying 12M photos and imitating famous watermark

Ridiculous. They publish these pictures and work their SEO for them to be seen by as many people as possible. Now they’re complaining that the pictures haven’t been seen by a web browser but a neural network that learned from them.

If they were to prevail, copyright would be changed in its very essence. It would morph from a protection of a specific form of personal expression into protection of ideas themselves.

Taking books as an example, authors would be able not only to dictate that you do not re-publish their work verbatim, but that you also do not use the ideas contained in the book in ways that are not covered by the license you paid for.