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Stable Diffusion Allegedly Used Artists' Works without Permission for AI Training
- Occurred
- Nov 20, 2022
- Published
- Feb 13, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Text-to-image model Stable Diffusion was reportedly using artists' original works without permission for its AI training.
Developers
- Stability AI
- Runway
- Lensa AI
- LAION
- EleutherAI
- CompVis LMU
Deployers
- Stability AI
- Lensa AI
- Midjourney
- DeviantArt
Harmed parties
- digital artists
- artists publishing on social media
- artists
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Unauthorized use of copyrighted works for AI training raises privacy and consent concerns.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8