Of course not all content creators are trolls. The jump to sue and the assumption that all of this is somehow victimizing everyone who has released content in

Of course not all content creators are trolls. The jump to sue and the assumption that all of this is somehow victimizing everyone who has released content in the CC license is troll-like thinking. Like I said before, I believe there's a strong argument that Stability AI / LAION's use of CC-{BY/SA/ND} is likely allowed under the terms of all CC licenses due to the works being shared without alteration and with attribution, released under CC-BY-SA 4.0 (LAION) and the Stable Diffusion model being released under a permissive license (CreativeML Open RAIL-M). The real question is if the images generated by the models need to provide attribution to every single weight involved in generating that image. That's a lot more complicated and unclear, but quickly gets into questions like "Should artistic style be copyrightable?" and "What amount of source material is required to constitute a copyrighted work?". But as of right now, I don't see how any of this is violating the letter or intent of CC 4.0