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Fearing copyright issues, Getty Images bans AI-generated artwork - Ars Technica
Sep 22, 2022 1 min, 23 secs

Getty Images has banned the sale of AI generative artwork created using image synthesis models such as Stable Diffusion, DALL-E 2, and Midjourney through its service, The Verge reports.

Getty's move follows image synthesis bans by smaller art community sites earlier this month, which found their sites flooded with AI-generated work that threatened to overwhelm artwork created without the use of those tools.

Getty Images competitor Shutterstock allows AI-generated artwork on its site (and although Vice recently reported the site was removing AI artwork, we still see the same amount as before—and Shutterstock's content submission terms have not changed).

The ability to copyright AI-generated artwork has not been tested in court, and the ethics of using artists' work without consent (including artwork found on Getty Images) to train neural networks that can create almost human-level artwork is still an open question being debated online.

While the creators of popular AI image synthesis models insist their products create work protected by copyright, the issue of copyright over AI-generated images has not yet been fully resolved.

Currently, AI image synthesis firms operate under the assumption that the copyright for AI artwork can be registered to a human or corporation, just as it is with the output of any other artistic tool.

Under US copyright law, pressing the shutter button of a camera randomly pointed at a wall still assigns copyright to the human who took the picture, and yet the human creative input in an image synthesis artwork can be much more extensive.

So it would make sense if the person who initiated the AI-generated work holds the copyright to the image unless otherwise restrained by license or terms of use.

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