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Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal reported that AI companies were running into a wall when it comes to gathering high-quality training data. Today, The New York Times detailed some of the ways companies have dealt with this. Unsurprisingly, it involves doing things that fall into the...

In the lawsuit brought against them for using visual artists' work to teach their large language model, and producing near-identical copies in response to prompts, Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt, and Runway AI moved to dismiss almost all of the claims asserted against them. Those claims include copyright infringement, violations of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act ("DMCA"), unjust enrichment, violation of the Lanham Act for false endorsement and trade dress infringement, and, against DeviantArt alone, breach of contract.