The world of digital art is becoming complex as AI systems gain popularity. They are also testing the limits of laws and ethics
Last month, a group of visual artists sued Artificial Intelligence (AI) company Stability AI, Midjourney and DeviantArt for alleged copyright infringement.
This class-action lawsuit, filed by artists Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan and Karla Ortiz, is questioning the platforms’ use of Stable Diffusion, the AI image-generation system created by Stability AI, labelling it a “21st-century collage tool” that remixes the copyrighted work of millions of artists whose work was used as training data. According to a blog…