Court orders AI chatbot firm to restore all deleted conversations amid US copyright lawsuit

A ‘Day of Reckoning’ for AI and Copyright: Getty Images v. Stability AI Trial Begins in London

The much-anticipated trial between Getty Images and Stability AI opened last week at the UK High Court, signalling what Getty’s legal team described as a “day of reckoning” for the generative AI industry and its relationship with intellectual property law. Getty accuses Stability AI, developer of the image generator Stable Diffusion, of infringing copyright and trademark rights by scraping millions of images from Getty’s database without permiss…

Court orders AI chatbot firm to restore all deleted conversations amid US copyright lawsuit

A high profile legal case there could set a precedent for AI intellectual property protection,  but meanwhile incurring some collateral damage. As part of an ongoing copyright lawsuit brought by The New York Times and other publishers, the makers of ChatGPT have been ordered by a federal US court to preserve all user conversations with ChatGPT, including those users have deleted. The order, issued by Magistrate Judge Ona T Wang in May 2025, mark…