Getty Images bans AI generated images from its library due to copyright concerns.
Getty Images has banned the upload and sale of any images generated by an AI—a bid to keep itself safe from any legal issues that may arise from what is effectively a Wild West of art generation today.
And that's a business that Getty, one of the leading curated image library providers, wants to stay well clear of. All AI image generation algorithms require training, and massive image sets are required to do this effectively. As The Verge reports, Stable Diffusion is trained on images scraped from the web via a dataset from German charity LAION. This data set was created in compliance with German law, the Stable Diffusion website states, though it admits that the exact legality regarding copyright for images created using its tool"will vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
, taken by their doctor, within the LAION-5B image set. The artist, Lapine, discovered their images had been used through the use of a website that is specifically designed to tell artists whether their work has been used in these sorts of sets, called 'These images have been confirmed by Ars Technica in an interview with Lapine, who has kept their identity confidential for privacy reasons.
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