![]() ![]() ![]() The text above has been updated to reflect this. Update: Shortly after this article was published, Getty Images announced that it would ban AI-generated images. While the jury is still out on whether it’s okay to profit from images that are algorithmically derived from other works, users of these tools seem to be intent on seizing the moment to make a few quick bucks. The appearance of AI-generated images on stock photo websites is especially ironic, given that some of these tools mine data from stock photo websites, among other sources. Others have worried about the impacts on independent artists who work for commissions, since the ability for anyone to create custom generated artwork potentially means lost revenue. In other words, the generated works are the result of an algorithmic process which mines original art from the internet without credit or compensation to the original artists. We want to see the world through your eyes. Artist David O’Reilly recently posted on Instagram calling DALL-E a “scam” and saying that it “undermines the works of creators of all kinds, most obviously photographers, illustrators, and concept artists who shared their work online, and never asked to be included in a proprietary learning model.” Shutterstock is a global marketplace for artists and creators to sell royalty-free images, footage, vectors and illustrations. Some creators have not taken kindly to this trend, pointing out that these systems use massive datasets of images scraped from the web. “There are real concerns with respect to the copyright of outputs from these models and unaddressed rights issues with respect to the imagery, the image metadata and those individuals contained within the imagery,” Getty Images CEO Craig Peters told the Verge. On Wednesday, Getty Images changed course, saying it has banned the upload and sale of AI-generated images due to copyright concerns. Shutterstock and Getty Images did not respond to a request for comment.Īs Ars Technica notes, neither Shutterstock nor Getty Images explicitly prohibits AI-generated images in their terms of service, and Shutterstock users typically make around 15 to 40 percent of what the company makes when it sells an image. Other images marked “AI generated,” like this burning medieval castle, seem to remain up on the site. Other images use tags like “AI generated”- one image, for example, is an illustration of a futuristic building with an image description reading “Ai generated illustration of futuristic Art Deco city, vintage image, retro poster.” The image is part of a collection the artist titled “Midjourney,” which has since been removed from the site. Google, meanwhile, is keeping its Imagen tool private until (and unless) it can find a "responsible" way to make the system available to the public.An AI-generated image that has since been removed on Shutterstock. Shutterstock rival Getty Images has completely banned AI-made images over copyright concerns, and is even using filters to stop that content from getting through. This is the first major compensation-based deal of its kind, and could help settle questions of whether or not AI-generated art is borrowed or stolen. Payments will arrive every six months and include revenue from both training data and image royalties. That will protect the companies' business models, of course, but it will also ensure that Shutterstock can identify the content used and pay the producers accordingly. The DALL-E integration will be available sometime in the "coming months." Crucially, Shutterstock will also ban AI-generated art that wasn't produced through OpenAI's platform. The expanded deal represents one of the first practical uses of the tech through OpenAI's programming kit. OpenAI licensed Shutterstock pictures and data to train DALL-E's text-to-image generation models in 2021. The company also plans to pay royalties to artists when the AI uses their work. The approach will offer "direct access" to DALL-E through the Shutterstock website, and compensate creators whose pictures played a role in developing the technology through a new Contributor Fund. As The Verge reports, the photo provider has widened its deal with OpenAI to begin selling stock images built using the DALL-E 2 AI generator. Shutterstock is eager to embrace AI-generated art. ![]()
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