The Stable Diffusion suit alleges copyright infringement, stating that, “The resulting image is necessarily a derivative work, because it is generated exclusive

The Stable Diffusion suit alleges copyright infringement, stating that, “The resulting image is necessarily a derivative work, because it is generated exclusively from a combination of the conditioning data and the latent images, all of which are copies of copyrighted images. It is, in short, a 21st-century collage tool.” That characterization is the essence and conclusion of the lawsuit, and one with which many AI designers would disagree. I didn't expect to be defending copyright law, but the excerpt is ridiculous. It's clear that the images are a product of the prompt and training set. The legal side of fair use and copyrights is best left to the courts, but the real question is how to divide the profits. Because the training dataset is so large and the technology plays such a crucial role, it may not make sense to pay much (if anything) for each individual image in the training set. There's no clear cut answer.