Extending cooperation between Shutterstock and OpenAI for DALL-E artificial intelligence training

Shutterstock (Shutterstock) plans to partner with OpenAI to extend it for another six years and allow this artificial intelligence 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 granted 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 development 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 month.

Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s chief operating officer, said in a statement:

“We are happy to be able to access the collection of high-quality content 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 content creation and ideation.”

The problem of artificial intelligence 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 intelligence models, prompting Getty Images to completely ban AI-generated content on its platform last year.

Earlier this year, Getty Images also sued Stability AI, the maker of Stable Diffusion’s artificial intelligence tool, for illegally copying and processing millions of copyrighted images.