Getty Images Plunges Into the Generative AI Pool

Earlier this year, the stock-photo service provider Getty Images sued Stability AI over what Getty said was the misuse of more than 12 million Getty photos in training Stability’s AI photo-generation tool, Stable Diffusion.

Now Getty Images is releasing its own AI photo-generation tool, which will be available to its commercial customers. And it’s bringing in the big dog to do it: Nvidia.

Called simply Generative AI by Getty Images, the tool is paywalled on the Getty.com website. It will also be available through an API, so Getty customers can plug it into other apps. It’s designed strictly for commercial use; a photo editor or marketer might need to find a generic image of a sneaker or a smartphone, for example, and rather than use a straight stock image, they could prompt the tool to generate something new. (Getty has said it doesn’t expect news organizations will use it.)

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