New AI systems collide with Copyright Law.

The website "Have I Been Trained?" is making the rounds on the Internet, following the continued misuse of others' creativity by developers of Artificial Intelligence models. 

American artist Kelly McKernan, curious to find out if her own works had been stolen and entered into any databases, decided to search her own name within the previously mentioned site. This brief process led her to the discovery of more than 50 of her works placed within the LAION database.

Together with cartoonist Sarah Anderson and illustrator Karla Ortiz, McKernan filed a lawsuit against Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and DeviantArt.

"I felt violated. If someone can type my name into an AI tool to make a book cover and not hire me, that affects my career and so many other people."