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Parties in Andersen v. Stability AI give status report on discovery, without immediate need for court intervention
Read more: Parties in Andersen v. Stability AI give status report on discovery, without immediate need for court interventionThe parties in Andersen v. Stability AI gave Magistrate Judge Cisneros a status report on production of datasets used to train AI models and responses to interrogatories. For the most part, discovery has proceeded along. The parties do not seek the court’s intervention, at least not yet. For the first filed copyright lawsuit against AI…
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Magistrate Judge Cisneros grants Stability AI’s motion to bar Sarah Andersen’s expert Dr. Ben Yanbin Zhao from viewing AI companies’ confidential information due to his competitive efforts to poison image data
Read more: Magistrate Judge Cisneros grants Stability AI’s motion to bar Sarah Andersen’s expert Dr. Ben Yanbin Zhao from viewing AI companies’ confidential information due to his competitive efforts to poison image dataDr.Ben Yanin Zhao, one of Sarah Andersen’s experts, cannot get access to confidential information, including datasets of Stability AI and other defendants in Andersen v. Stability AI. His adversarial work on developing tools to poison images so they sabotage AI models’ ability to learn from them, plus his unwillingness to say he would no longer…
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Sarah Andersen loses bid to get Midjourney’s datasets beyond LAION
Read more: Sarah Andersen loses bid to get Midjourney’s datasets beyond LAIONMidjourney just got some good news. Magistrate Judge Cisneros denied Sarah Andersen’s motion to compel the production of datasets that Midjourney used beyond the datasets from the nonprofit LAION. Judge Cisneros ruled that the plaintiffs only alleged the use of the LAOIN datasets in their complaint. Their claims are solely based on LAOIN datasets.
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After Disney sues Midjourney, Sarah Andersen seeks all datasets used by Midjourney
Read more: After Disney sues Midjourney, Sarah Andersen seeks all datasets used by MidjourneyTwo days after Disney sued Midjourney, Sarah Andersen and other artists are asking Magistrate Judge Cisneros to order Midjourney to produce all datasets it used to train its AI models. The original discovery request by Andersen had been made in November 2024. And now the parties turn to Judge Cisneros to resolve their dispute. Plaintiffs…
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Magistrate Judge Cisneros asks parties in Andersen v. Stability if Dr. Emily Wenger, former student of Dr. Ben Zhao, can serve as an alternate expert
Read more: Magistrate Judge Cisneros asks parties in Andersen v. Stability if Dr. Emily Wenger, former student of Dr. Ben Zhao, can serve as an alternate expertORDER by Judge Lisa J. Cisneros: In their 303 supplemental brief, Defendants reference Dr. Emily Wenger, disclosed as an expert in In re Google Generative AI Copyright Litigation, 23-cv-03440-EKL, to illustrate that there are alternative, qualified experts who do not share Dr. Ben Zhao’s alleged “focus on studying and developing tools that sabotage Defendants’ models.”…
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Magistrate Judge Cisneros finds “difficult question” whether Dr. Ben Zhao should be allowed to see confidential business information of AI image generators, despite developing tools to poison them
Read more: Magistrate Judge Cisneros finds “difficult question” whether Dr. Ben Zhao should be allowed to see confidential business information of AI image generators, despite developing tools to poison themMagistrate Judge Lisa Cisneros held a Zoom hearing today in the Andersen v. Stability AI suit. Defendant AI companies, which make AI image generators, have filed a motion to bar Dr. Ben Zhao, one of the plaintiffs’ experts and a chaired professor at the University of Chicago, from seeing the datasets and other confidential business…
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Sarah Andersen v. Stability AI parties dispute over Dr. Ben Zhao’s serving as expert, despite making tools to poison data for AI image models
Read more: Sarah Andersen v. Stability AI parties dispute over Dr. Ben Zhao’s serving as expert, despite making tools to poison data for AI image modelsBelow are the competing letters the parties in the Sarah Andersen v. Stability AI lawsuit filed. The controversy is that the Dr. Ben Zhao of University of Chicago is one of the researchers behind Nightshade, Glaze, and other adversarial tools used to “poison” the data for image generators so that they fail at creating images…
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Hearing whether to disqualify Dr. Ben Zhao as plaintiffs’ expert in Andersen v. Stability postponed until June 10
Read more: Hearing whether to disqualify Dr. Ben Zhao as plaintiffs’ expert in Andersen v. Stability postponed until June 10No hearing today. Order: Notice is hereby given that the Discovery Hearing previously set for June 6, 2025 is CONTINUED to June 10, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. (PT) via Zoom Webinar before Magistrate Judge Lisa J. Cisneros. From Judge Cisneros’s website: Public Hearings Please click the link below to join webinars (public hearings). If you…
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Hearing set to determine whether plaintiffs’ expert Dr. Ben Y. Zhao, who created tools to poison AI models data, should be allowed to see highly confidential material of Stability AI. Or should Zhao be disqualified?
Read more: Hearing set to determine whether plaintiffs’ expert Dr. Ben Y. Zhao, who created tools to poison AI models data, should be allowed to see highly confidential material of Stability AI. Or should Zhao be disqualified?Magistrate Judge Lisa J. Cisneros has set a Discovery Hearing set for June 6, 2025, 9:00 AM, by videoconference. The controversy stems from the plaintiffs’ expert Dr. Ben Y. Zhao’s participation in creating the Nightshade tool, which deploys “prompt-specific poisoning attacks that corrupt a model’s ability to respond to specific targeted prompts.” “Nightshade [is] a prompt-specific poisoning attack…