Big Tech and AI Companies Strike Massive Deals for Billions of Photos to Train Algorithms
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Shutterstock has licensing deals with Meta, Google, Amazon, and Apple worth an estimated $25-$50 million each to provide hundreds of millions of images for AI training.
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Meta (Facebook and Instagram) plans to use billions of publicly shared images and videos from its platforms to train its own AI models, without external licensing deals.
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Tumblr is secretly negotiating deals with OpenAI and Midjourney to license content to train AI systems, despite decreasing popularity.
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Getty Images launched its own AI image generator trained on its content libraries, while also accusing Stable Diffusion of using 12 million Getty photos without consent.
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Photobucket's CEO is in talks with unnamed tech companies to license its collection of 13 billion photos and videos for AI training at rates from 5 cents to $1 per photo.