AI used photographer’s photos for training, then slapped him with an invoice
There&#x27;s a missing step in this story it feels.<p>He asked for them to be deleted.<p>Their lawyers responded to say that the pictures are not stored and so they can&#x27;t delete them and said if you try and make an unjustified copyright claim we can recoup the cost.<p>He made some kind of claims in a letter that as far as I can tell isn&#x27;t in the article - I guess he pushed forwards with making the claim about copyright and&#x2F;or demanding they delete his pictures? What did he send?<p>They responded saying well we told you it was unjustified and now we&#x27;ve incurred costs so as previously stated we&#x27;re charging them to you.<p>&gt;  while LAION continues to use his pictures.<p>Are they using his pictures? What they have is a link to the picture, right?