Artists suing Midjourney and DeviantArt for copyright infringement have had big chunks of their case dismissed by a US District Judge. According to The Hollywood Reporter's interpretation of the judge's comments, "among the issues are whether the AI systems they run on actually contain copies of copyrighted images that were used to create infringing works and if the artists can substantiate infringement in the absence of identical material created by the AI tools". However, the part of the artist's case that claimed Stable Diffusion was trained on their copyrighted images without their permission was allowed to proceed. The same legal team is also suing GitHub, Microsoft an OpenAI on behalf of developers facing the same issue as the artists as their code is sucked into an algorithm without their permission.
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