Key facts
- Midjourney is facing a copyright infringement lawsuit.
- Three artists are the plaintiffs in the lawsuit.
- The suit alleges unauthorized use of copyrighted works for AI model training.
- Plaintiffs are seeking statutory damages and an injunction.
AI image generation platform Midjourney is facing a copyright infringement lawsuit. The suit was filed by three artists who allege that their copyrighted works were used without their consent to train the AI models powering Midjourney and other similar platforms. The artists are seeking statutory damages and an injunction to halt the alleged infringement.
Midjourney is an artificial intelligence program that creates images from textual descriptions, often referred to as prompts. The core accusation in the lawsuit is that Midjourney and other AI platforms used artists' copyrighted artwork without permission to train their AI models. The plaintiffs are seeking statutory damages and an injunction to prevent further unauthorized use of their work.