https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/13/this-startup-wants-to-train-art-generating-ai-strictly-on-licensed-images/

Generative AI, particularly text-to-image AI, is attracting as many lawsuits as it is venture dollars.

Two companies behind popular AI art tools, Midjourney and Stability AI, are entangled in a legal case that alleges they infringed on the rights of millions of artists by training their tools on web-scraped images. Separately, stock image supplier Getty Images took Stability AI to court for reportedly using images from its site without permission to train Stable Diffusion, an art-generating AI.