In order to develop filters for content produced by AI, the stock photo company is collaborating with the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity. Getty is also encouraging users to flag anything that the filters failed to identify.
The leading stock photography companies in the world will start removing artificial intelligence (AI)-generated photographs from their website and will stop accepting submissions of these kinds of images.
Getty Images, Shutterstock Bans AI-Generated Images to Their Platforms
The distribution of AI-generated art made with image synthesis models like Stable Diffusion, DALL-E 2, and Midjourney through Getty's service is now prohibited. Reports say that it is also starting to remove these AI-generated images on its platform, according to a news story by Ars Technica.
Publications and websites are the common users of stock photo sites. After paying a license fee, publications usually use the extensive collection of stock images and artwork at stock photo sites to accompany their articles.
One of the most popular stock photography companies in the world is Getty Images.
"We've already started removing content, but this will be an ongoing effort from our teams," Getty Images CEO Craig Peters told CNET.
According to Peters, the AI-generated images from Getty's library are very limited, adding that its editorial offering was already subject to a number of substantial constraints.
In order to develop filters for content produced by AI, the stock photo company is collaborating with the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity. Getty is also encouraging users to flag anything that the filters failed to identify.
Whether Getty had previously run into legal issues with AI-generated content was not made clear by Peters.
The leading stock photography companies in the world will start removing artificial intelligence (AI)-generated photographs from their website and will stop accepting submissions of these kinds of images.
Meanwhile, it was also reported that Shutterstock, another popular provider of stock photography, has started removing AI-produced artwork from its website.
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Why Does Photo Services Ban AI-Generated Images
It will come down to copyright issues. According to Engadget, it is not technically illegal to use AI to create an image. However, the problem with this approach is that AI-generators usually use photos that might be protected by copyright.
If this is the case, legal implications may arise from Getty and its users who will use such images.
There is still a lot of discussion online about the ethics of using artists' work without their permission to train AI-networks to be able to produce artwork that is nearly human-level. It should be noted that data should be fed to the AI for it to become smart.
While the ability to copyright artwork created by AI has not been put to the test in court, Getty and Shutterstock decided to omit the matter entirely with its ban in order to safeguard their companys' reputation and their users.
Despite all of this, there is still no clear legal consensus in the U.S. about copyright issues related to AI artwork.
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