Key facts
- Midjourney is facing a class-action lawsuit.
- The lawsuit alleges copyright infringement.
- Artists claim their copyrighted images were used without permission for AI training.
Midjourney, a popular AI tool for creating images from text descriptions, is now the subject of a class-action lawsuit filed by a group of artists. The suit alleges that Midjourney infringed on copyrights by training its AI model using millions of copyrighted images scraped from the internet without proper authorization or compensation to the creators. This legal challenge could set important precedents for AI training data usage and artists' rights within the rapidly evolving AI industry.