Judge lets artists try again in battle over AI copyright • The Regist…

A US federal judge almost threw out a lawsuit brought by artists accusing text-to-image AI developers of copyright infringement, but decided to give the creatives a chance to improve and resubmit their complaint.

In January, illustrators Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz sued Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt, and sought class-action status. They argued the developers had unlawfully scraped billions of images from the internet – including their copyrighted art – to train AI models to generate digital images from users’ natural language descriptions.

People can use tools like Stability’s DreamStudio or Stable Diffusion to create images that mimic people’s individual styles – effectively ripping off their work and endangering their livelihoods, the artists claimed. You can ask certain models things like: “Draw a comic about a recruiter interviewing someone for a programming job, in the style of Sarah Andersen” and they will output pictures matching that…