Crab eaters.
As one of the largest paid gallery sites abroad, Shutterstock recently announced a new partnership with Open AI, which will use DALL-E to provide AI image synthesis services. Users can automatically generate the desired images through AI by entering text prompts. .
As a commercial gallery website, Shutterstock’s decision means the commercialization of AI drawing, which also puts the copyright, ethics and other issues that AI has repeatedly mentioned in the spotlight again. In addition to enabling AI drawing materials, Shutterstock also announced another important piece of information:
They will compensate all the artists who assist the AI in the creation.
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As we all know, at present, AI cannot create pictures out of thin air. Any works that conform to human aesthetics need to provide a large number of relevant human paintings for reference, so that AI can finally generate relatively suitable images.
If Shutterstock wants to commercialize the AI drawing service it provides, it will inevitably need a large number of human paintings for AI learning. In view of this demand, the official said that it will give the picture author a certain compensation fee, which will be distributed every 6 months. At present, there are many platforms for AI drawing, and the official also said that any non-DALL-E works will be prohibited from being sold on the shelves.
As for the copyright issue of AI drawing that people are most concerned about, the decision of the Shutterstock platform is that the copyright of the image does not belong to the creator, and only financial compensation will be provided. Since the pictures generated by AI may refer to multiple works, it is impossible to define a clear ownership, and the copyright cannot be provided to individuals, so it can only give financial returns to the relevant creators.
Naturally, there have been plenty of different voices about this inherently controversial move. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is optimistic about the future of this collaboration and even AI drawing, saying: “Artificial intelligence will become an integral part of an artist’s creative work.”
The CEO of Getty Pictures, another gallery website, said that he will not introduce AI creation, because “there are still many problems, such as who owns the generated pictures, and restrictions on the use of pictures, etc. We do not want customers to be involved in such legal risks.”
Despite the controversy, Shutterstock said it will soon open up the paid feature of AI-based custom images.
No matter how controversial and flawed this technology is, now the first “serious crab eater” has appeared. Whether this is a “real crab” can only be verified by time.
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