The context for this is that AI models are often built on data scraped from the internet, including images and text that are often copyrighted. Getty Images is currently suing Stable Diffusion for using 12 million of its copyrighted photos from the LAION data set. The letter calls for regulation of AI to prevent misuse of copyrighted content and to maintain public trust in the media.
Key takeaways:
- Leading photo agencies and photographer associations, including Getty Images and the Associated Press, have signed an open letter calling for legal protections against artificial intelligence (AI).
- The signatories are demanding that AI companies respect intellectual property rights and get consent from rights holders for the use and copying of their content in training data and outputs.
- They are also calling for transparency in the makeup of all training sets used to create AI models and for AI models to clearly identify their outputs as AI-generated content.
- Getty Images is currently suing Stable Diffusion for using 12 million of its copyrighted photos that were in the LAION data set used by AI companies.