Getty Images has largely lost its landmark lawsuit in the United Kingdom against artificial intelligence company Stability AI over its image generator.

Seattle-based Getty, which produces editorial content and creative stock images and video, accused Stability AI of using its images to "train" its Stable Diffusion system, which can generate images from text inputs.

The company had sued Stability AI for breach of copyright on the grounds Stable Diffusion was trained using Getty's images, and that images generated by Stable Diffusion reproduced its copyrighted images.

But Getty dropped that part of its case mid-trial, partly due to a lack of evidence about where Stable Diffusion was "trained," which intellectual property lawyers said could limit the wider significance of Tuesday's ruling

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