A group of AI companies requested US court to reject copyright lawsuit brought by artists

Three artificial intelligence (AI) companies asked the San Francisco federal court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a group of artists who claim that the companies infringed their copyrights by using their artwork to train AI models without their permission.

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Three artificial intelligence (AI) companies asked the San Francisco federal court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a group of artists who claim that the companies infringed their copyrights by using their artwork to train AI models without their permission. The companies claim that the artists failed to identify the work of any plaintiff allegedly used as training data while also arguing that the AI images are not similar to the ones the artists created.