OpenAI just inked a multi-year display deal with Getty Images to embed licensed visual content directly into ChatGPT's search and discovery features. Instead of relying on web scrapes, ChatGPT can now serve up high-quality, verified imagery to make visual search results substantially more trustworthy.
Stability AI is in hot water as Getty Images takes it to London's High Court in the first major copyright trial of the generative AI era. Getty argues the startup brazenly scraped its photo library to train Stable Diffusion without paying a dime, while Stability claims the case threatens its business and the broader AI sector. Why it matters: This trial could reshape content licensing terms for every image generator on the market.
Lightricks just launched LTX Video-13B, a 13-billion-parameter open-source video model available on GitHub and Hugging Face. It brings multi-scale rendering that generates high-res clips up to 30 times faster than peers, and clever quantization lets it run on consumer GPUs. Plus, it's free to license commercially for teams under $10M in revenue.
TikTok just plugged Getty Images’ licensed library into its Symphony Creative Studio, which is officially rolling out to all advertisers today. Brands can generate finished video ads with realistic AI avatars and multi-language dubbing from a simple product prompt, backed by commercially safe imagery.
Shutterstock and Getty Images just rolled out major visual AI upgrades powered by Nvidia’s Edify architecture. Shutterstock launched a commercial beta for Generative 3D that creates editable assets and 16K HDRi lighting maps from prompts. Meanwhile, Getty doubled its generation speed to four images in six seconds and added fine-tuning, both leveraging commercially licensed data.
Getty Images just teamed up with Nvidia to launch Generative AI by Getty Images, an image generator trained strictly on Getty’s proprietary licensed library. The tool offers full copyright indemnification for commercial users and blocks prompts featuring real-world figures or specific artist styles. Why it matters: As copyright lawsuits mount across the industry, Getty is betting that legally bulletproof images will win over cautious enterprise clients.
Major news organizations just published an open letter urging global lawmakers to enforce transparency around AI training datasets. Signatories like The Associated Press and Getty Images argue that generative models exploit copyrighted journalism without consent or compensation, demanding mandatory rights-holder consent and commercial licensing protections.
Getty Images just filed a major lawsuit against Stability AI in Delaware federal court, alleging the startup scraped over 12 million copyrighted photos to train Stable Diffusion. The visual media giant also claims the AI spits out mangled Getty watermarks, and is demanding the destruction of all infringing model versions.
Getty Images just filed a lawsuit against Stability AI in London, accusing the company of copying millions of copyrighted photos to train Stable Diffusion without a license. Getty emphasized that it is not against AI art and already licenses images to other AI firms, but claims Stability bypassed commercial licensing options to profit from its intellectual property.
