Description: Image generator litigation
This is Joseph Saveri and Matthew Butterick . In November 2022, we teamed up to file a lawsuit challenging GitHub Copilot , an AI coding assitant built on unprecedented open-source software piracy. In July 2023, we filed lawsuits on behalf of book authors challenging ChatGPT and LLaMA .
In January 2023, on behalf of three wonderful artist plaintiffs — Sarah Andersen , Kelly McKernan , and Karla Ortiz , we filed an initial complaint against Stability AI , DeviantArt , and Midjourney for their use of Stable Diffusion , a 21st-century collage tool that remixes the copyrighted works of millions of artists whose work was used as training data. Lockridge Grindal Nauen P.L.L.P. joined us as co-counsel.
In November 2023, we filed an amended complaint , adding seven new plaintiffs and one new defendant, Runway AI .