An IP Attorney's Reading of the Stable Diffusion Class Action Lawsuit – Law Offices of Kate Downing

The image above was created via Stable Diffusion with the prompt "lawyers in suits fighting robots with lasers in a futuristic, superhero style." Looks like Matthew Butterick and the Joseph Saveri Law Firm are going to have a busy year! The same folks who filed the class action against GitHub and Microsoft related to Copilot and Codex a couple of months ago, have filed another one against Stability AI, DeviantArt, and Midjourney related to Stable Diffusion. The crux of the complaint is around Stability AI and their Stable Diffusion product, but Midjourney and DeviantArt enter the picture because they have generative AI products that incorporate Stable Diffusion. DeviantArt also has some claims lobbed directly at them via a subclass because they allowed the nonprofit, Large-Scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network's (LAION), to incorporate the art work submitted to their service into a large public dataset of 400 million images and captions.