Shutterstock and OpenAI will team up to sell AI-generated stock images

Shutterstock is eager to embrace AI-generated art. As The Verge reports, the photo provider has widened its deal with OpenAI to begin selling stock images built using the DALL-E 2 AI generator. The approach will offer "direct access" to DALL-E through the Shutterstock website, and compensate creators whose pictures played a role in developing the technology through a new Contributor Fund. The company also plans to pay royalties to artists when the AI uses their work. OpenAI licensed Shutterstock pictures and data to train DALL-E's text-to-image generation models in 2021.