Court Largely Grants Defendants’ Motion To Dismiss in AI Training Data Case -

On Monday, a district court largely granted the defendants’ motions to dismiss in Andersen et al. v. Stability AI et al., one of a series of putative class action cases that content creators have recently filed alleging that their content was used without permission to train artificial intelligence (AI) models. While the court (Judge William Orrick of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California) gave the plaintiffs leave to amend their complaint, a number of statements by the court may make it challenging for these plaintiffs to articulate a viable claim on the main issues...