OpenAI’s DALL-E will practice on Shutterstock’s library for six extra years

Shutterstock is extending its partnership with OpenAI for six extra years, permitting the AI firm to coach its fashions utilizing Shutterstock’s sprawling library of photographs, movies, music, and metadata throughout that point.

The inventory picture website’s partnership with OpenAI first started in 2021. That’s when Shutterstock began letting the corporate use its photographs to coach its text-to-image mannequin, DALL-E — a deal OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described as “crucial” to the mannequin’s coaching. Final 12 months, Shutterstock launched a “Contributor Fund” to compensate artists when their work is used to coach OpenAI’s fashions.

“We’re happy to have the ability to license Shutterstock’s high-quality content material library,” Brad Lightcap, the chief working officer of OpenAI, says in a press release. “This prolonged collaboration not solely enhances the capabilities of our picture fashions but additionally empowers manufacturers, digital media, and advertising firms to unlock transformative prospects in content material creation and ideation.”

Not like different image-sharing platforms like Getty Pictures, Shutterstock is totally embracing AI — and all the results that will include it. Artists have expressed issues about their work getting scraped to coach AI fashions, which Getty Pictures has addressed by banning AI-generated content material from its platform utterly. Getty Pictures additionally sued Stability AI, the corporate behind the AI artwork software Steady Diffusion, over allegations that it “unlawfully copied and processed hundreds of thousands of photographs protected by copyright” on its web site.

Whereas Shutterstock may even see its library develop by means of its integration with DALL-E, it may not save the platform from the authorized grey space surrounding AI-generated content material.