An-Tim Nguyen 
Class action lawsuit filed against Stability AI, deviantArt and Midjourney.
https://stablediffusionlitigation.com/
https://www.saverilawfirm.com/ai-art-generators-copyright-litigation
solient@antimnguyen oh heck yeah. I hope they get nailed to the wall.
Phracker@antimnguyen I heard about this on /g/. Do they really have a case here? I mean, you're allowed to create likenesses of other people's work. The AI bots aren't creating exact copies or anything, nor are the training images even stored in their original form like the complaint states. Neural networks don't store images, only numbers.
@antimnguyen All in all, this just seems like a hollow attempt to stop the inevitable march of technological progress, which everyone who's tried to do this in the past has failed to do. Look at the controversy in the art community surrounding the invention of the camera. Everyone thought it would spell doom for every artist's career, but that never happened. Did they succeed in stopping cameras from taking over? No. Learn from history and stop trying to fight against change.
@Phracker2Art If there is one constant, it's that people are bad at predicting the future. 3D television didn't end up being "inevitable": it came and didn't last.
Artists are not anti-technology. They do not want their work to be stolen, unlicensed for commercial purposes. Just like one should be concerned about having their user data scraped, so should artists regarding their work.
If these businesses are the same difference without their work, then their work shouldn't be used.
@antimnguyen 3D TV failed in the free market because it just wasn't a popular product, not because someone was actively trying to sabotage or ban the technology. There's a distinction between things that happen due to natural market forces and things that happen due to deliberate efforts by humans. Look at the banking industry's repeated failures to destroy crypto/blockchain. If the most powerful technocrats in the world can't destroy a competing technology, what makes you think anyone else can?
@antimnguyen I will say, however, that you do have a valid point about artists having a right to not have their work used by someone else without their consent. This is where perhaps a compromise can be reached, where AI bots are allowed to exist (inevitable) but artwork has to be specifically licensed for use in AI datasets. That would actually create a lot of work opportunities for artists, as they would be needed to supply material for training the AI bots.