OpenAI to use training data from Shutterstock for next six years

Shutterstock said it plans to bring generative AI capabilities to mobile devices via GIPHY.

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Earlier this year, Shutterstock purchased GIPHY from META. (Image Source: Shutterstock)

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OpenAI, the company that brought us ChatGPT, recently signed a new six-year contract with Shutterstock. The deal will allow OpenAI to make use of high-quality training data like images, music, videos and associated metadata to train DALL-E and enhance its image generation capabilities.

According to the contract, Shutterstock customers will be able to use DALL-E to create, edit and transform new content as well as modify any image from their huge content library. Shutterstock and OpenAI also plan to bring generative AI capabilities to mobile devices via its recently acquired GIF library GIPHY.

Paul Hennessy, CEO of Shutterstock, said, “the renewal and significant expansion of our strategic partnership with OpenAI reinforces Shutterstock’s commitment to driving AI tech innovation and positions us as the data and distribution partner of choice for industry leaders in generative AI.”

Earlier this year, Shutterstock signed a deal with OpenAI to bring its own set of generative AI tools powered by DALL-E that generate images which will be ‘ready for licensing’. The former also introduced a ‘Contributor Fund’ which paid artists for the content that was used to enhance the training data set.

While Shutterstock seems to be embracing AI, Getty Images filed a lawsuit against Stability AI earlier this year accusing the latter of misusing and copying millions of photos without a license and using them to train its own text-to-image generator – Stable Diffusion.