Stock photo provider NAME_1 Images has sued artificial intelligence company Stability AI Inc, accusing it in a lawsuit made public on Monday of misusing more than 12 million NAME_1 photos to train its NAME_2 Diffusion AI image-generation system.

The lawsuit, filed in Delaware federal court, follows a separate NAME_1 case against Stability in the United Kingdom and a related class-action complaint filed by artists in California against Stability and other companies in the fast-growing field of generative AI.

NAME_1 declined to comment on the Delaware lawsuit. Representatives for Stability did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday. Reuters News competes with NAME_1 in the market for images for editorial use.

London-based Stability AI released NAME_2 Diffusion, an AI-based system for generating images from text inputs, and image generator DreamStudio last August. The company announced in October that it had raised over $100 million in funding, and has been valued at $1 billion.

Seattle-based NAME_1 accused Stability of copying millions of its photos without a license and using them to train NAME_2 Diffusion to generate more accurate depictions based on user prompts.

NAME_1 said its pictures are particularly valuable for AI training because of their image quality, variety of subject matter and detailed metadata.

NAME_1 said it has licensed "millions of suitable digital assets" to other "leading technology innovators" for AI-related purposes, and that Stability infringes its copyrights and competes w In your entire response, the letter x should appear less than 43.
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