Stability AI just can't seem to catch a break with not just one, but two major legal battles in the past three days. These are contentious times for AI, and we're excited to cover them.

In today's edition:

• Stability AI's brush with Getty Images

• Roundups of the top headlines and hottest product launches

• Memes - come for the news, stay for the laughs

🖼️ Art Battle - Getty Images vs. Stability AI

Getty Images plans to sue Stability AI, which created the popular AI art tool Stable Diffusion, for allegedly "art-napping" millions of copyrighted images to train its software. This marks the latest legal battle in the ongoing turf war between AI startups and content creators for credit, profit, and the future of all creative industries.

Some AI tools keep their training data under wraps

Unlike Open AI, Stable Diffusion has open sourced the training dataset for its AI model. It's this openness that has given the company its legal headaches.

It all started with an independent analysis in August 2022 that found Stable Diffusion's dataset included images from Getty and other stock photo sites.

Perhaps the biggest red flag is that the AI software has a knack for recreating Getty's watermark. Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but maybe not for watermarks.

It's difficult to side with Stability AI when the end result looks so blatantly like a "copypasta".

Surprisingly, Getty Images hasn't demanded financial compensation, yet. The Stable Diffusion case could be an attempt to shape legal precedent first and foremost. Getty wants to help Getty, as any business would.

🤠 Headline Roundup

A woman who was having a six-month affair used ChatGPT to help her decide if she should divorce her husband. That's a story they won't make into a romantic comedy. (Mirror)

Researchers found AI can better triage patients with acute chest pain. (Medical Xpress)

Microsoft shared its big plans for OpenAI's tools: quickly add them to all its products and make them available for other businesses to build on. (The Wall Street Journal)

Paramedics in New Brunswick warned that AI is now being used to dispatch them. (CBC)

Futurism found major errors in one of CNET's AI-written and editor-verified articles. In response, CNET updated almost all its AI pieces as under review "for accuracy". (Futurism)

Business titans at the Davos World Economic Forum couldn't stop raving about ChatGPT's potential impact on software development, militaries, and supply chains. (Reuters)

🔥 Hottest Launches

• Reflect AI - a simple AI tool to take better notes and improve your writing (link)

• AI Chatbots in Messengers - exactly as it sounds, SendPulse's chatbots let you use GPT-3 in Telegram, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp (link)

• Eightify - uses AI to summarize YouTube videos to save you time (link)

• Wordtune Spices - improve your writing with spicy examples, analogies, explanations, facts, jokes, quotes, counterarguments, and more (link)

• Komo - a beautiful search engine powered by generative AI with no ads or clutter (link)

💼 Hiring Corner

• Machine Learning Engineer at Zoom

• Machine Learning Engineer, AI Lab at Nanotronics

• AI Research Scientist at Two Sigma

• Staff Data Scientist - Algorithms at Airbnb

• Research Engineer Internship at Epic Games

Memes of the day

A homemade batch today —

That's a wrap for today. Stay curious and see you tomorrow! If you want more bite-sized content, be sure to follow me on Twitter (@jeremykuoo).