Justice Joanna Smith, however, found that evidence from Stability and its CEO Emad Mostaque suggested a conflict of evidence or potential inaccuracies. This was based on Mostaque's media appearances where he claimed that Stability assisted in fast-tracking UK residency applications for Russian and Ukrainian developers working on Stable Diffusion. The Verge has reached out to Stability AI for comment.
Key takeaways:
- The Business and Property Courts of England and Wales ruled that Getty’s claim against startup Stability AI should be further investigated. The claim alleges that Stability used Getty's copyrighted images to train its Stable Diffusion model.
- Stability argued that the case should not be heard in a UK court, stating that no one involved in the training or development of Stable Diffusion was based in the UK and that the model was trained using US-based cloud computing power from AWS.
- Justice Joanna Smith decided that evidence from Stability and its CEO Emad Mostaque was either inaccurate or incomplete, suggesting a conflict of evidence.
- The court pointed to media appearances by Mostaque, where he said Stability helped fast track UK residency applications of Russian and Ukrainian developers working on Stable Diffusion.