Adobe Sued by Own Shareholders Over AI Training on AI-Generated Images

(By You Yunting) Recently, Adobe, a software company that has long been vocal in enforcing its copyrights, together with its management, was sued by its own shareholders in the Northern District of California for alleged securities fraud based on false statements, due to using pirated materials to train its AI. The core allegations in the complaint include Adobe’s use of a large number of pirated books and AI-generated images sourced from its competitor Midjourney to train its AI models. I have often discussed the legal issues of training AI on pirated content, but today I would like to talk about what legal risks arise from using AI-generated images to train AI models.

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