Getty Images CEO Craig Peters has a plan to defend photography from AI

What do you think makes an excep­tion­al photograph?

Very curi­ous how this law­suit against sta­bil­i­ty / mid jour­ney plays out. Big impli­ca­tions for genAI train­ing depend­ing on the result

He can’t pos­si­bly know that the mod­el is 100% inca­pable of cre­at­ing an image of Kelce and Swift (or any oth­er like­ness). What deter­mines if an image resem­bles the like­ness of a per­son is NOT a mat­ter of whether those like­ness­es were men­tion in the prompt. It is a mat­ter of whether the out­put image resem­bles that per­son or not. While the mod­el has not been trained explic­it­ly on those like­ness­es, it has learned all the com­po­nents about a per­son nec­es­sary to recre­ate such a like­ness giv­en a suf­fi­cient­ly gran­u­lar and descrip­tive prompt (or by ran­dom chance). 

The mod­el would have no way of know­ing that such an out­put was not allowed unless it HAD been trained on those like­ness­es and was explic­it­ly told to avoid them. And if they instead were to lim­it such gran­u­lar descrip­tion to avoid recre­ation of spe­cif­ic sce­nar­ios, like­ness­es, or images, they are effec­tive­ly neu­ter­ing the whole pur­pose of hav­ing a mod­el that is sup­posed to gen­er­ate images based on your descriptions.

So a locked down gen­er­a­tive AI tool, that you pay for…vs. non-locked down gen­er­a­tive AI that is / can be free? Good luck with that Get­ty lol.