Unfortunately, not every image you stumble upon is free to use — not without risking getting yourself in legal trouble. Tons of stock photography services like Shutterstock, Getty Images ...

Now, one company wants to ... that can use them — royalty free. Many of the images look fake but others are difficult to distinguish from images licensed by stock photo companies.

Shutterstock, another major stock image service, has partnered with OpenAI to let the San Francisco-based AI company train its Dall-E image generator on Shutterstock’s vast image library.

In a press statement shared with The Verge, the stock photo company said it believes that Stability AI “unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright” to train its ...