Hanson, who’s based in McMinnville, Oregon, is one of many professional artists whose work was included in the data set used to train Stable Diffusion, which was released in August by London-based Stability AI. She’s one of several artists interviewed by CNN Business who were unhappy to learn that pictures of their work were used without someone informing them, asking for consent, or paying for their use.

Metz, R. (2022, October 21). These artists found out their work was used to train AI. Now they’re furious. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/21/tech/artists-ai-images/index.html