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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 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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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…