AI Law Cases
The lawsuits shaping the future of AI, broken down for students. Understand the legal battles over copyright, privacy, discrimination, and more.
Case Studies
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The New York Times v. OpenAI & Microsoft
Can AI train on copyrighted news articles?
The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming that ChatGPT was trained on millions of NYT articles without permission. The Times argues this isn't fair use. It's large-scale copying that threatens journalism. OpenAI says training AI on public data is transformative fair use, similar to how humans learn by reading.
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Getty Images v. Stability AI
AI-generated art vs. photographer rights
Getty Images, one of the world's largest photo agencies, sued Stability AI (the company behind Stable Diffusion) for using over 12 million copyrighted photos to train its AI image generator without permission or payment. Some AI-generated images even included distorted Getty watermarks, proving the AI had ingested their content.
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ACLU v. Clearview AI
Facial recognition, privacy, and the Fourth Amendment
Clearview AI scraped over 30 billion photos from social media (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc.) without anyone's consent and built a massive facial recognition database. It sold access to law enforcement agencies across the country. The ACLU sued under Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), arguing this violated people's right to control their own biometric data.
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