Shutterstock will sell AI-generated art and 'compensate' human artists

Photo licensing service Shutterstock will begin selling images generated by artificial intelligence alongside those created by humans. The AI images will be powered exclusively by OpenAI's DALL-E 2 software. Both companies say that human creators whose work inspired the AI will be compensated, but one artist describes the move as "sewer water leak into the drinking supply". Shutterstock was one of several photo agencies that began removing AI-generated art from their archives last month. A Shutterstock spokesperson told New Scientist that the company would continue to ban people generally from uploading AI-generated art to its platform, but that its collaboration with OpenAI was an attempt to embrace new technology in an ethical way.