Shutterstock Will Soon Offer Licensed DALL-E 2 Images, Showing What The Future Of Generative AI Might Look Like

AI Shutterstock Will Soon Offer Licensed DALL-E 2 Images, Showing What The Future Of Generative AI Might Look Like Johan Moreno Contributor Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Following New! Follow this author to stay notified about their latest stories. Got it! Oct 26, 2022, 01:58am EDT | New! Click on the conversation bubble to join the conversation Got it! Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin This photo illustration shows the DALL-E website on a cellphone, in front of an AI image created .

. . [+] using DALL-E technology displayed on a computer screen in Washington, DC, on July 20, 2022.

– A million people eager to dabble with a new artificial intelligence tool that lets them create images simply by describing them with words will soon get their wish, its creators said Wednesday. Artificial intelligence research firm OpenAI is conducting a wide-scale beta test of DALL-E, a cutting-edge software that creates images from textual descriptions. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds / AFP) (Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images The internet’s top provider of stock imagery, Shutterstock, says it will add AI-generated images, powered by OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 generative search engine.

The announcement is an expansion of an existing relationship struck between the two companies last year. OpenAI said it trained its DALL-E system using Shutterstock data, with Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, adding the data was critical to training DALL-E. DALL-E integration is expected to launch in the coming months on Shutterstock’s website, which the company said will “improve creative workflows.

” “We’re excited for Shutterstock to offer DALL-E images to its customers as one of the first deployments through our API, and we look forward to future collaborations as artificial intelligence becomes an integral part of artists’ creative workflows,” Altman said in a statement. KIEV, UKRAINE – 2018/12/07: In this photo illustration, the Shutterstock Stock photography company . .

. [+] logo seen displayed on a smartphone. (Photo Illustration by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) LightRocket via Getty Images Shutterstock’s approach may also be a preview on how contributing photographers that inspire these AI models are compensated.

The company said it would provide compensation for artists whose works have contributed to the development of AI models, as well as royalties whenever their intellectual property is used, but did not offer details beyond that. MORE FOR YOU Livestream Shopping Stays Hot As Whatnot Valuation More Than Doubles To $3. 7 Billion Breeders’ Cup 2022: The Key To Understanding How Classic Favorite Flightline Runs And Trains Forbes Global CEO Conference 2022: Key Insights And Highlights Generative art AI models are trained on scrapped internet data, in this case, images.

While some analysts have argued these systems are using this data under fair use, others have argued AI search engines are violating copyrights. Despite gaining mass popularity with AI evangelists, generative image search engines are closed to the public, with very few commercial applications to date. For instance, until the partnership was struck, a company or individual could not easily “license” a DALL-E 2 image.

Partnerships with massive stock image websites, like Shutterstock, may be the key to creating a sustainable business model around the nascent technology. However, not every stock image website is eager to rush onto the generative AI train. Right after the Shutterstock announcement, competitor Getty Images said it would be partnering with AI company BRIA to develop “responsible AI” tools centered around image editing, but not generation.

In an interview with The Verge, Getty Images CEO Craig Peters expressed concerns about the legal risks surrounding the technology. “There’s a lot of questions out there right now — about who owns the copyright to that material, about the rights that were leveraged to create that material — and we don’t want to put our customers into that legal risk area,” he tells The Verge. “There have been assertions that copyright is owned by x, y, z, by certain platforms, but I don’t think those questions have been answered.

” Shutterstock currently has AI-powered capabilities built in its platform after the acquisition of three companies, Pattern89, Datasine, and Shotzr. These tools work primarily in assisting users with the image selection process. Its catalog has over 200 million royalty-free stock images and other graphics, as well as video clips and royalty-free music for licensing.

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