Not sure if its already been shared as its "old" news, but the AI generated watermark is hilarious. 😂

Getty Images is suing the creators of AI art tool Stable Diffusion for scraping its content

Not sure if its already been shared as its "old" news, but the AI generated watermark is hilarious. 😂 Getty Images is suing the creators of AI art tool Stable Diffusion for scraping its content Getty Images claims Stability AI ‘unlawfully’ scraped millions of images from its site. It’s a significant escalation in the developing legal battles between generative AI firms and content creators. https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/17/23558516/ai-art-copyright-stable-diffusion-getty-images-lawsuit

Sam Mendoza

Copyright heads are rolling: Over the weekend, the current Presidential administration fired Shira Perlmutter, whom the AP calls “the nation’s top copyright official.” Why the move? Copyright boffins in the government had the temerity to argue that while some use of copyright-protected material in #Artificial Intelligence training is likely legal under fair use rules, not every instance is above-board. As a number of well-known AI model companies are Trump boosters, it’s unlikely that they enjoyed hearing that training off stolen materials isn’t legally protected.  connecting dots here, but given how recently the report in question came out, you can run the odds yourself.

https://apnews.com/article/copyright-director-firing-government-trump-7ab99992a96131bce7de853b66feec68?_bhlid=2ae945fa87bd47a26952ccca9edd88f4229802b2

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Copyright heads are rolling: Over the weekend, the current Presidential administration fired Shira Perlmutter, whom the AP calls “the nation’s top copyright official.” Why the move? Copyright boffins in the government had the temerity to argue that while some use of copyright-protected material in #Artificial Intelligence training is likely legal under fair use rules, not every instance is above-board. As a number of well-known AI model companies are Trump boosters, it’s unlikely that they enjoyed hearing that training off stolen materials isn’t legally protected.  connecting dots here, but given how recently the report in question came out, you can run the odds yourself.  https://apnews.com/article/copyright-director-firing-government-trump-7ab99992a96131bce7de853b66feec68?_bhlid=2ae945fa87bd47a26952ccca9edd88f4229802b2

The Trump administration has fired the nation’s top copyright official, Shira Perlmutter. The move comes days after the abrupt termination of the head of the Library of Congress, which oversees the U.

Trump administration fires top copyright official days after firing Librarian of Congress

Photo licensing service Getty Images is exploring a merger with Shutterstock, a rival service, Bloomberg reported, in a possible sign of how the emergence of artificial intelligence-powered image creation is affecting the market for photo images.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-03/getty-images-explores-merger-with-rival-shutterstock?sref=qvN0c6kf&utm_campaign=article_email&utm_content=article-14239&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sg

Photo licensing service Getty Images is exploring a merger with Shutterstock, a rival service, Bloomberg reported, in a possible sign of how the emergence of artificial intelligence-powered image creation is affecting the market for photo images.  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-03/getty-images-explores-merger-with-rival-shutterstock?sref=qvN0c6kf&utm_campaign=article_email&utm_content=article-14239&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sg

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Bobby

Stock photographers prepare for AI disruption, as stock photo companies say traditional photography still has a market but work on building their own AI tools. 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-last-stock-photographers-await-their-fate-under-generative-ai-822d1e6a?st=d1z5rth1g5uhl5n&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Stock photographers prepare for AI disruption, as stock photo companies say traditional photography still has a market but work on building their own AI tools.   https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-last-stock-photographers-await-their-fate-under-generative-ai-822d1e6a?st=d1z5rth1g5uhl5n&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

They survived the disruptive advent of digital cameras and online sales. Now stock photographers are bracing themselves for the next great tech shock: generative AI.

The Last Stock Photographers Await Their Fate Under Generative AI

Todd Smith

What was the conclusion of them suing Stability AI?

Nate

Stock photo platform Getty Images introduced a generative AI tool trained exclusively on its own licensed content. The "commercially safe" tool generates images from text prompts, providing customers with a royalty-free license and protection against copyright lawsuits.
- The "Generative AI by Getty Images" tool is built on Nvidia's Edify text-to-visual AI model and trained on a portion of Getty's roughly 477 million assets.
- The tool restricts the creation of images depicting public figures or mimicking a living artist's style.
- All images generated by the tool are watermarked as AI-generated.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/09/25/1080231/getty-images-promises-its-new-ai-doesnt-contain-copyrighted-art/

Stock photo platform Getty Images introduced a generative AI tool trained exclusively on its own licensed content. The "commercially safe" tool generates images from text prompts, providing customers with a royalty-free license and protection against copyright lawsuits. - The "Generative AI by Getty Images" tool is built on Nvidia's Edify text-to-visual AI model and trained on a portion of Getty's roughly 477 million assets. - The tool restricts the creation of images depicting public figures or mimicking a living artist's style. - All images generated by the tool are watermarked as AI-generated. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/09/25/1080231/getty-images-promises-its-new-ai-doesnt-contain-copyrighted-art/

And it will pay legal fees if its customers end up in any lawsuits about it.

Sam Mendoza

A group of likeminded people in Artificial Intelligence are talking about this.