Shutterstock (Shutterstock) plans to partner with OpenAI to extend it for another six years and allow this artificial ielligence company to develop its models, including DALL-E teach with the help of your images, videos, music and metadata.
Collaboration between Shutterstock and OpenAI first started in 2021. At the time, ChatGPT’s creator was graed permission to use images from the site to train his text-to-image model, DALL-E, a deal that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called “critical” to the developme of his model. .
Last year, Shutterstock added its OpenAI image generator tool directly to its website, banning the sale of AI-generated images that weren’t created using the built-in DALL-E tool. Now Shutterstock is expanding this partnership and plans to “give users the ability to edit and transform any image in the Shutterstock collection.”
Shutterstock also plans to add AI capabilities to Giphy, which it acquired from Meta last moh.
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s chief operating officer, said in a stateme:
“We are happy to be able to access the collection of high-quality coe of Shutterstock. This extensive collaboration not only enhances the capabilities of our visual models, but also empowers brands, digital media and marketing companies to have transformative opportunities in coe creation and ideation.”
The problem of artificial ielligence and stock photo platforms
Unlike other photo sharing platforms like Getty Images, Shutterstock fully embraces AI and all its implications. Artists have expressed concern about their photos being manipulated to train artificial ielligence models, prompting Getty Images to completely ban AI-generated coe on its platform last year.
Earlier this year, Getty Images also sued Stability AI, the maker of Stable Diffusion’s artificial ielligence tool, for illegally copying and processing millions of copyrighted images.
