On the other hand, at least one suit was making headway as of 2024-08-14, about 2 months ago [0]. It seems like there must be some merit to GPs claim if this is moving forward. But again, I'm still trying to figure out where to stand.
[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/artists-claim-bi...
The remaining claim may not be a good claim, but it isn't completely laughable.
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Ander... Order-on-Motions-to-Dismiss-8-12-2024.pdf
In October 2023, I largely granted the motions to dismiss brought by defendants Stability, Midjourney and DeviantArt. The only claim that survived was the direct infringement claim asserted against Stability, based on Stability’s alleged “creation and use of ‘Training Images’ scraped from the internet into the LAION datasets and then used to train Stable Diffusion.”
I think you could have grounds for saying that construction of LAION violates copyright which would be covered by this. It doesn't necessarily mean training on LAION is copyright violation.
None of this has been decided. It might be wrong.
The rest of the case was "Not even wrong"