PrivacyHigh
Stable Diffusion's Training Data Contained Copyrighted Images
- Occurred
- Oct 16, 2022
- Published
- Jan 17, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Stability AI reportedly scraped copyrighted images by Getty Images to be used as training data for Stable Diffusion model.
Developers
- Runway
- LAION
- EleutherAI
- CompVis LMU
- Stability AI
Deployers
- Stability AI
Harmed parties
- Getty Images
- Getty Images contributors
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Unauthorized scraping of copyrighted images constitutes a privacy and intellectual property violation with legal consequences.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8