Andersen
Andersen v. Stability AI Ltd.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 SARAH ANDERSEN, et al., Case No. 23-cv-00201-WHO
Plaintiffs,
ORDER ON MOTIONS TO DISMISS
v. AND STRIKE
STABILITY AI LTD., et al., Re: Dkt. Nos. 49, 50, 51, 52, 58 Defendants.
Artists Sarah Anderson, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz filed this putative class action on behalf of themselves and other artists to challenge the defendants’ creation or use of Stable Diffusion, an artificial intelligence (“AI”) software product. Plaintiffs allege that Stable Diffusion was “trained” on plaintiffs’ works of art to be able to produce Output Images “in the style” of particular artists. See generally Compl., Dkt. No.1. The three sets of defendants ((i) Stability AI Ltd. and Stability AI, Inc. (“Stability”); (ii) DeviantArt, Inc.; and (iii) Midjourney, Inc.) have each filed separate motions to dismiss and DeviantArt has filed a special motion to strike under California Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16. Finding that the Complaint is defective in…