Citing Copyright Concerns, Getty Images Bans AI-Generated Content

Image caption: An image generated by DALL-E 2 based on the text prompt “1960s art of cow getting abducted by UFO in midwest”. Image credit: Encik Tekateki via Wikimedia Commons. Article by Sarah Rose Sharp. Hyperallergic – September 22, 2022.

The company cited “open questions” and “unaddressed rights issues” with respect to the content used by artificial intelligence generators.

With a new world of visual potential lately opened by artificial intelligence (AI) image generators such as DALL-E and Midjourney, there is also a new world of potential legal complications. Looking to get ahead of problems before they begin, Getty Images — a massive supplier of stock photography — has banned the upload and sale of all content generated using AI art tools. […]

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