Craig Peters

I asked the robot to draw a picture of a robot drawing a picture of a robot. It didn’t go great. Image: Shutterstock AI (Shutterstock)Shutterstock, one of the internet’s biggest sources of stock photos and illustrations, is now offering its customers the option to generate their own AI images. In October, the company announced a partnership with OpenAI, the creator of the wildly popular and controversial DALL-E AI tool. Now, the resultsof that deal are in beta testing and available to all paying Shutterstock users. The…

Photo: Stefani Reynolds (Getty Images)Shutterstock’s leaning all the way into AI generated stock photos and wants to throw a bone to the measly meat bags that made it possible.In the coming months, the stock image giant says it will expand its relationship with OpenAI to provide its users “direct access” to the wildly popular DALLE-2 text to image AI model. In effect, that means the two companies will work together to sell AI generated art trained, in part, from human produced Shutterstock stock images. Go ahead and…

Getty Images is fine with altered photos or artistic images, so long as they were created by human hands.Photo: Wirestock Creators (Shutterstock)Deepfakes are no longer desired, fakes are now forlorn, and any AI-originated content will be ostracized from image hosting website Getty Images.Getty provided a communication originally sent to the site’s contributors to Gizmodo confirming that, effective immediately, the site will deny any submissions created by AI image generators. Getty specifically mentioned that any images…