Artist sued in Canada for copyright infringement for AI-related art project

The plaintiffs are artist Amel Chamandy and Galerie NuEdge Fine Arts (which sells and exhibits her art). Mr Basanta is a world renowned new media artist who experiments with AI in his work. According to a letter dated July 4, filed with the court, Mr. Basanta's current project is "to explore connections between mass technologies, using those technologies themselves." He explains his process in a video which can be found here. Essentially, he has created what he describes as an "art-factory" that randomly generates images without human input.