It’s easy to get lost in a sea of information when it comes to both the legal proceedings surrounding the multitude of generative-AI lawsuits currently in progress.
This article would be impossibly long if it captured every event and suit, but the critical highlights are listed here and will be updated over time.
A short primer
What is generative-AI?
Gen-AI is a type of machine learning and artificial intelligence that uses prompts to generate images, text, videos, and audio.
What are the lawsuits about?
A fair number of gen-AI lawsuits allege copyright infringement—particularly in regard to text and images—while gen-AI companies claim their datasets fall under the fair use doctrine (https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107).
What’s at stake?
- Job stability
- Trillions of dollars
- Copyright and trademark protections
- Economic projections
- Intellectual property safety
Let’s get into it…
Major players in the Gen-AI space
- OpenAI
- ChatGPT
- DALL-E 3 (text to image)
- Sora (text to video)
- Microsoft Copilot
- Anthropic (AI safety and research)
- Midjourney (text to image)
- Stability.AI (text to video, etc.)
- DeviantArt (text to image)
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* This article will be updated over time.