UK court rules in favor of Stable AI
A UK court just ruled in favor of Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion, after Getty Images accused them of using over 11 million images from its library without permission to train their AI.
This was one of the first big UK cases to question how AI models use copyrighted content.
What's next for AI and copyright issues
Getty dropped its main copyright claim during the trial, so things focused on whether making the model weights for certain versions of Stable Diffusion available for download via Hugging Face, or generating images containing Getty's trademarks, broke any rules.
On November 4, Judge Joanna Smith decided that since Stable Diffusion doesn't store or copy Getty's images directly, there was no copyright violation. The court also found only minor trademark issues with some early versions of the software.
While this clears up some questions about how AI can be trained in the UK, it leaves a lot still undecided—and similar legal fights are still happening in other countries like the US.