AI-powered content-generating tools have seen their popularity explode in recent months, but it hasn’t stopped the controversy that surrounds them. That’s been especially true of systems that.
What just happened? In addition to concerns about AI-generated content taking human jobs, it seems there are also questions regarding the material these tools are trained on. In the case of the art-creating systems Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, their developers are being sued alongside portfolio site DeviantArt by three artists for allegedly violating copyright laws.
AI-powered content-generating tools have seen their popularity explode in recent months, but it hasn’t stopped the controversy that surrounds them. That’s been especially true of systems that create art. The problem was highlighted last September when the Colorado State Fair’s contest for emerging digital artists was by Jason M. Allen, who created his entry using Midjourney.
Midjourney and Stable Diffusion are trained on billions of images.
