This was just a matter of time.
AI-generated art has been causing astonishment and controversy in equal measure lately thanks the incredible output of the latest generation of tools. We've seen artists up in arms after an AI-generated piece won a fine art competition, while creatives in many areas are concerned about their jobs.
However, one other big concern about the commercial use of AI-generated images is that the question of copyright has yet to be resolved. And that's causing enough doubts for Getty Images, the company behind one of the word's biggest libraries of stock imagery, to ban AI-generated images from its site .
Well done GettyImages. Hopefully other places take a similar stance with this. This is certainly the way forward dealing with this. pic.twitter.com/70duZ8W6atText-to-image AI art generators create imagery from text prompts after being trained on a vast database of images and captions scraped from the internet to produce something that, if the user is lucky, resembles the description typed in.
That seems to be the concern of the stock photography giant Getty Images, which has now banned its contributors from uploading AI-generated pictures. The company says “there are open questions with respect to the copyright of outputs from these models and there are unaddressed rights issues with respect to the underlying imagery and metadata used to train these models." It notes that the ban does not affect the submission of 3D renders and other digital editing tools.
What's interesting is that AI art generators like DALL-E 2 use neural networks that are trained on photos and art scraped from online sites, and it seems that includes Getty judging by the number of Getty Images watermarks that seem crop up in images generated by DALL-E 2, suggesting that either images partly come from Getty or that DALL-E 2 believes certain types of images should have a Getty watermark.
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