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Adobe will sell AI-made stock images

• gjsman-1000 4y ago
  > "Adobe, by contrast, seems comfortable with the legal risk. Although it is requiring creators to affirm they have proper rights to the works they submit, it will indemnify buyers of stock images should there be any legal challenges. That's significant given that there are a number of unanswered questions around generative AI, including whether people whose works have been part of training the AI systems have any legal claim to the systems or the works they produce." It is legally risky - however, if history shows anything, US Courts are terrified of shutting down fledgling industries just because it doesn't fit well with the old way of doing things. For example - the VCR (Sony vs Universal). Similarly, computers being used for copyright violations en masse did not make Adobe Photoshop or BitTorrent illegal. Criminals using encryption ultimately did not make VeraCrypt or PGP illegal. People changing their region to watch out-of-region videos did not make VPNs illegal. So, actually... precedent-wise, supporting the AI-generated photographs industry and getting it off the ground is arguably the best way to keep it legally in the clear. If it was this super-niche thing that everyone was scared to touch, the odds of courts shutting it down increase.