Getty Images CEO warns it can't afford to fight every AI copyright case

Big quote: Getty Images has found itself at the center of a heated global debate over artificial intelligence and copyright, but the company's chief executive says the costs of defending artists' rights in court are becoming unsustainable. In a recent interview with CNBC, Getty Images CEO Craig Peters described the financial burden of challenging AI companies that use copyrighted material to train their models, revealing even a major player like Getty cannot afford to pursue every potential infringement. Peters explained that Getty's ongoing lawsuit against Stability AI, maker of the popular image generator Stable Diffusion, has already cost the company a huge amount of money. "Even for a company like Getty Images, we can't pursue all the infringements that happen in one week," Peters told CNBC. "We can't pursue it because the courts are just prohibitively expensive. We are spending millions and millions of dollars in one court case." "We are spending millions and millions of dollars ... Read full article.