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Shutterstock And OpenAI Extend Partnership, Bringing DALL·E 2 To Their Platform

Stock image platform Shutterstock is extending it's partnership with OpenAI to bring DALL·E 2 to the platform. Compensation is promised for involved creators, however it has still reared controversy.
Created on October 25|Last edited on October 25
Stock image collections are a common resource when compiling visual datasets for machine learning, and that's why OpenAI partnered with Shutterstock back in 2019 when training DALL·E 2.
Now, Shutterstock and OpenAI are expanding their partnership to bring DALL·E 2 straight back to the platform from which it's training data was collected. With this new partnership, Shutterstock is also putting out a message to it's creators about a compensation strategy to reimburse those whose content was used in AI model training.


Compensation & controversy

Described in the press release, Shutterstock promises that the new AI platform will provide a new revenue source for creators whose work contributed to the training of AI models like DALL·E 2. A new fund, royalties, and other compensations will come to those whose IP is used in this AI context.
Even with Shutterstock's plans for creator compensation, some controversy has sprung up from the creators who feel threatened by the inclusion of AI image generation on the stock image website they earn a living through - especially with the irony that it's their own images which were used to train the model.
Shutterstock will also be officially banning the upload of any AI-generated imagery to their stock site, except for those created by DALL·E 2. Other original-content image hosting platforms, including competing stock image platform Getty Images, have recently come out with blanket bans for the upload of any AI generated imagery.

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