[williamcotton]

> > Let’s say that their work was left out of the training data or if it was allowed to remain that the tool never reproduced training data… is Stable Diffusion any more or any less useful?

> This doesn't really have much to do with copyright.

It is not specific to copyright but any private wrong heard by the courts needs a clearly defined plaintiff, defendant and property in question.

How can the plaintiffs accuse anyone of infringing on their copyrights when no one has used the tool to produce the protected works? Which of their specific works was infringed upon? Is that specific work a requirement for the tool to function?

The plaintiffs seem to be “everyone” and their property “every single digital image”, which is legally incoherent. How exactly would someone reasonably ask permission for every single digital image? Is everyone entitled to part of the settlement or just the plaintiff’s and their lawyers?