"As a critical partner in driving policy, procedures, and best practices for responsible AI at a global scale, we look forward to working with AI for Good to support their efforts as we continue to lay the groundwork for industry standards that recognize the contributions of artists and creators in addition to those of developers and technologists." "Our collaboration with AI for Good is an important element in our commitment to advancing development and use of ethical AI tools and solutions," said Sejal Amin, Chief Technology Officer at Shutterstock. Shutterstock's high-quality content library is enriched with vast metadata that leads the industry in size, diversity and annotation-making it unrivaled for training AI capabilities. The company was the first to create a "Contributors Fund" to compensate artists and creators whose work helped train its AI models. Shutterstock holds a strong position in creative and tech innovation, using DALL-E 2 to power its own AI Image Generator and having recently announced partnerships with NVIDIA, Open AI, Meta, LG Research and other tech industry leaders to develop foundational generative AI tools and standards for creators. Shutterstock's presentation at the Summit will demonstrate their commitment to solving many of the issues involved with human machine collaboration," said Frederic Werner, Head of Strategic Engagement, ITU AI for Good, "We believe our collaboration with Shutterstock will inspire our community to both learn about this tech and consider the impacts when creating processes, policies and procedures for integration." "As we look to the future of AI integration, we have a responsibility to understand what this means for developers, users and communities. The goal of AI for Good is to identify practical applications of AI to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and scale those solutions for global impact. As part of this collaboration, Shutterstock will deliver a keynote address at the upcoming AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland, taking place July 6-7. AI for Good is organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies, in partnership with 40 UN Sister Agencies and co-convened with Switzerland. (NYSE: SSTK), a leading global creative platform for transformative brands, and digital media and marketing companies, today announced a global partnership with AI for Good to support the development of ethical AI models, tools, products and solutions. NEW YORK, /PRNewswire/ - Shutterstock, Inc. With AI art appearing on sites like Shutterstock, if future AI image models trained on scraped images from the Internet learn from their own output, the future of art may be very recursive indeed.Global Creative Platform and AI Leader Forges Path for Tech Community to Develop and Integrate Responsible AI Practices and Procedures It's no secret that image synthesis models like Stable Diffusion have been trained, in part, using stock photography websites. Meanwhile, artists that embrace the new AI tools continue to push their art in new and interesting directions, and the technology keeps moving forward unimpeded. Some artist communities are taking action against submissions that have been flooding their sites due to the ease that they can be generated in an almost unlimited quantity. This comes amid a fierce debate online about the ethics of AI-assisted artwork over the past few months. She describes needing to upscale her AI-generated artwork before submission because most image synthesis output at present isn't high-resolution enough to meet Shutterstock's standards. Further Reading Flooded with AI-generated images, some art communities ban them completelyĪ recent video tutorial from a Canadian portrait photographer named Vanessa on YouTube lays out her process of trying to find which stock websites allowed AI artwork created by Midjourney, settling on Shutterstock.
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