A Picture-Perfect Deal That Never Developed: The Getty-Shutterstock Deal Postmortem

My first introduction to generative AI was through the image generation tool DALL-E (a nod to the Pixar movie and robot Wall.E), and it was almost two years later that ChatGPT showed up and AI became a mainstream buzzword. The early versions of DALL-E were disappointing, but things started to improve rapidly as AI models, fed on a steady diet of faster …