OpenAI’s DALL-E will train on Shutterstock’s library for six more years
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Shutterstock is extending its partnership with OpenAI for six more years, allowing the AI company to train its models using Shutterstock's sprawling library of images, videos, music, and metadata during that time.
The stock image site's partnership with OpenAI first began in 2021. That's when Shutterstock started letting the company use its images to train its text-to-image model, DALL-E - a deal OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described as critical" to the model's training. Last year, Shutterstock launched a Contributor Fund" to compensate artists when their work is used to train OpenAI's models.
At that time, Shutterstock also integrated OpenAI's image generator directly into its website and banned the sale of AI-generated images that weren't...