Who cares about frivolous lawsuits. Stable Diffision and the like tools will prevail. The main hope is that it will be their OSS versions and not corporate (Dall-E).
The works and ways of lives that are threatened by SD and the like are not worth preserving
I wouldn't call them frivolous. Quite a few people believe training generative AI models on their copyrighted work and providing others with access to that model violates their copyright. IANAL but it seems a weak argument to me. And it seems weak to some IP lawyers I know as well.
It also seems like technology that can't be realistically bottled back up. However, I wouldn't call lawsuits frivolous and it might actually be useful to get some legal clarity
I have yet to hear a copyright lawyer who actually understands how these tools work say anything other than that it's going to be fair use; the ones that I have seen comment on it as such seem to have extremely misunderstood how the tech works and how the images are used, they've just regurgitated the arguments that the artists opposed to it make (about how it copy and pasted images, etc).
Maybe I'm wrong, also not a lawyer, but I've heard from enough at this point (including ones that I've paid and are actually our lawyers as we evaluate internal use of the tools) that I definitely wouldn't bet on these suits succeeding.
And Google was sued many times back in the day for the same thing, because of their indexing of the web. They won out under fair use for the exact same reasons that all of these lawsuits will fail, the way these images are used falls very clearly within the dead center of fair use, and is probably even less questionable than Google's, since Google really does store and display direct copies of pieces of the content that it organizes.
I would be shocked if there were any significant tech companies that are not currently being sued. Frivolous (or maybe even not so frivolous) lawsuits are a fact of nature, best not to waste time worrying about them until you are the target.
the filing of the lawsuit shows a clear lack of understanding by those doing the suing, it will be thrown out almost immediately unless brought to a sympathetic judge, which is unlikely since they filed in the bay area.
