Stability AI Partially Wins UK Court Battle Against Getty Images Over AI Copyright

Imagine a company called Getty Images owns many pictures.

Another company, Stability AI, made a computer program called Stable Diffusion that can create new pictures.

Getty Images said Stability AI copied their pictures without asking to teach its program how to make pictures.

This happened in a British court.

The judge said that Stability AI did not break copyright rules when teaching its program, because the program doesn't actually keep copies of the original pictures.

However, the judge did find that Stability AI sometimes broke trademark rules, like when a company's logo showed up on pictures made by Stable Diffusion.

Getty Images said this was a win for people who own creative work, while Stability AI said they were happy because the main copyright concerns were resolved.

This case is important because it's one of the first times a court has looked at rules for AI learning from pictures and art.