Artists Are Suing for Their Futures
Three artists – Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz – filed a landmark copyright lawsuit against Midjourney and Stability AI in 2023, alleging their artworks were scraped without consent to train image-generation AI. The case is now in a US federal court. Illustrator Molly Crabapple documented her own experience of unconsented scraping in 2022. This episode examines the ethical and legal dimensions of AI training data, the human cost of creative labour being absorbed without permission, and the contrasting approaches of companies like OpenAI and Anthropic to responsibility. Hosted…
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