All The Photo Companies That Have Struck Licensing Deals With AI Firms
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The rise of generative AI means that huge archives of photographs and videos are suddenly valuable with the current situation being compared to a gold rush, but which platforms are licensing their content to large tech firms for the purposes of training AI models? [Read More]

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