getty is quickly following adobe.
this is why i feel copyright is a bad angle.
if courts come down against fair use with ai, generative ai profits and experimentation will quickly become intensely centralized, but the technology isn’t going anywhere, and nobody will be meaningfully paid.
generated art will still proliferate and improve, and as it does more and more people will use it
https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/25/23884679/getty-ai-generative-image-platform-launch
if you are wondering what i think the right angle is, it is:
free use for the artists, unions for the megacorps