Andersen v. Stability AI goes to jury: first US trial on AI image-training liability
The consolidated artist class action against Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt and Runway (N.D. Cal., Judge Orrick, docket 3:23-cv-00201) reached a jury on 8 September 2026, the first US trial testing whether training an image generator on scraped copyrighted artwork infringes, alongside a Lanham Act false-endorsement claim the fair-use defence cannot reach. No verdict has been reported as at 10 September. Distinct from the text-based fair-use rulings already on file (Anthropic settlement, NYT v OpenAI), a verdict here becomes the reference point for image-model training liability and style-mimicry claims specifically, relevant to any client building on or deploying Stable Diffusion-family tools.
Source: CourtListener docket 3:23-cv-00201 (N.D. Cal.), via The World of AI litigation tracker
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