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A PUSH TO DEVELOP GENERATIVE A.I. and avoid the lawsuits. The Content creators seek licensing to be paid for images that train models.

Companies like Google and OpenAI built their  artificial intelligence chatbots and image generators by gobblying content from the web, prompting legal fights over copyright claims.

Now, some of those copyright holders are trying to get in on the A.I. boom. The major stock photo suppliers Getty Images and Shutterstock among others, are building A.I. image generators with their own data, bypassing the legal worries that shadowed the industry.

While the largest tech companies have been locked in a dizzying A.I. race, visual media marketplaces, content creators and artists are pushing for licensing so that they can be paid for work that helps train A.I. models and influences the technology they worry could one day displace them.

It's part of a larger effort to transform how A.I. models are developed, one that would train them with licensed data rather than with content that is scraped without permission.

While many image generators are often used by consumers for amusement, like creating the viral image of the pope in a white puffer jacket, the tech industry has coalesced around the idea that more advertising agencies and other companies would use these tools for marketing if there were no legal uncertainty surrounding them.

That's the target market for Getty. Its partner,  Picsart, which is building an A.I. image model with stock photos from Getty's repository, is trying to appeal to small-and-medium size businesses.

The company is mostly known for a photo -editing app used by more than 100 million people, most of them Gen Z-ers.

Picsart wanted to use licensed data to build the model because, for the company and customers, lawsuits are '' a drag to the business; it's a distraction,'' Craig Foster, its chief financial officer, said. '' I don't want any part of that.''

After ChatGPT, the chatbot from OpenAI, and Stable Diffusion, a popular image generator from the British startup Stability AI, wowed consumers in 2022, Google, Meta and other companies rushed to release similar A.I. capabilities. Lawsuits soon followed.

Publishers, authors and artists said they found signs that their works had been scraped to train the A.I. models.

The New York Times sued OpenAI and its partner, Microsoft, in December for using copyrighted news articles without permission to train A.I. chatbots. OpenAI and Microsoft said they used the articles under '' fair use.''

There's also been legal wrangling over models that convert text into images. Cartoonists and a photographer sued Google in April, saying the company trained Imagen, its image generator, with their copyrighted works.

Google has said that, '' American law has long supported using public information in new and beneficial ways.''

'' With each different version of technology that comes out, copyright law is put to test,'' said Alan Fisch, an intellectual property lawyer at Fisch Sigler. Without clear legal rules in place, licensing data is '' one way to reduce risk,'' he added.

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