US media company Getty Images largely lost a case it brought against a British AI firm over use of its copyrighted content without permission, a court in London said on Tuesday.

Getty had alleged that London-based Stability AI, whose directors include Canadian filmmaker James Cameron, "extracted millions" of images from Getty's websites "without consent" to unlawfully train its deep learning AI model, Stable Diffusion.

The model can generate images using verbal commands.

Stability AI rejected the claim, telling a High Court trial which began in June, that the legal action was a "threat" to the business.

Getty, which distributes stock and news photos and videos, including AFP photos, dropped its allegations of breach of copyright during the trial but continued to pursue several other cl

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