Perplexity Signs Deal To Use Getty Images

Perplexity AI has agreed to a multi-year licensing business pinch Getty Images that will let its users to entree nan latter’s extended room of images. Leveraging Getty’s API, Perplexity will merge nan ocular media distributor’s immense postulation of banal and editorial imagery wrong its AI hunt and find tools, pinch correct attribution being a cardinal portion of nan agreement.

In a press release, Getty said that Perplexity will beryllium "making improvements connected really it displays imagery, including image in installments pinch nexus to source, to amended better users connected really to usage licensed imagery legally." As generative AI devices go much wide accessible, thorny issues astir copyright and attribution person been nan root of a number of lawsuits, nary shortage of which person been targeted astatine Perplexity.

In August, nan institution was sued by 2 Japanese media groups, Nikkei and Asahi Shimbun, for allegedly copying and storing article contented from nan pair’s servers illicitly, arsenic good arsenic crediting them pinch inaccurate accusation Perplexity supplied. It was besides 1 of 4 companies sued by Reddit earlier this period for allegedly utilizing scraped information without nan correct license. Even nan dictionary has taken nan AI institution to court.

Getty itself has bumped up against AI galore times connected nan roadworthy to its caller woody pinch Perplexity. Back successful 2022 nan institution outright banned AI-generated creation connected its level owed nan ineligible murkiness astir copyright, and it later sued nan AI creation instrumentality Stable Diffusion complete for allegedly copying and processing millions of protected images from its collection.

On nan Perplexity agreement, Getty Images’ Vice President Strategic Development, Nick Unsworth, said that "partnerships specified arsenic this support AI platforms to summation nan value and accuracy of accusation delivered to consumers, yet building a much engaging and reliable experience."