Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
This lawsuit was supposed to decide if training AI on copyrighted data is illegal.
Instead, it gave us something bigger: a reminder that the law still doesn’t know how to handle how AI learns.
The UK court said Stability AI didn’t infringe copyright because the model never stored Getty’s photos. It learned patterns, not pixels.
And whether we like it or not, that’s exactly how humans learn too.
So now we’re left with the real question:
If learning from copyrighted data is allowed… where does learning stop and copying begin?
I’m Louis-François, PhD dropout, now CTO and co-founder at Towards AI. Follow me for tomorrow’s no-BS AI roundup 🚀
#ai #aitraining #stabilityai #short
This lawsuit was supposed to decide if training AI on copyrighted data is illegal.
Instead, it gave us something bigger: a reminder that the law still doesn’t know how to handle how AI learns.
The UK court said Stability AI didn’t infringe copyright because the model never stored Getty’s photos. It learned patterns, not pixels.
And whether we like it or not, that’s exactly how humans learn too.
So now we’re left with the real question:
If learning from copyrighted data is allowed… where does learning stop and copying begin?
I’m Louis-François, PhD dropout, now CTO and co-founder at Towards AI. Follow me for tomorrow’s no-BS AI roundup 🚀
#ai #aitraining #stabilityai #short










