Getty Images, one of the worlds biggest picture agencies, is taking action against Stability AI.
Getty Images is taking legal action against the makers of an artificial-intelligence image-creation tool.
AI image generators "learn" to create images from simple text instructions by analysing human-made pictures, including images found online.Some artists find image generators a valuable way to express themselves creatively - but many others"This thing wants our jobs - it's actively anti-artist," one wrote in a viral tweet.has previously told BBC News Stable Diffusion is trained using a compressed file of "100,000GB of images" scraped from the internet.
Chief executive Craig Peters told BBC News Stability AI's use of work on Getty Images was not "supported by the law and we believe content owners should have a say in how their work is used". Picsel, a collection agency that works to ensure creators are paid fairly when their work is copied, has previously warned of the risks to photographers' and photo agencies' livelihoods.
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