The world needs a timeout moment
Violent AI-generated photos fictionalizing the ongoing deadly Israel-Hamas conflict are not only being sold via Adobe’s stock image library, some news publishers are buying and using the pics in online articles.
Last year, the Photoshop titan announced it would host and sell people’s images produced using machine-learning tools. Adobe gives those artists a 33 percent cut of the revenue from those pictures, meaning creators could make between 33 cents and $26.40 every time their image is downloaded.
Generative AI technology has advanced, and become more accessible and easy to use. Anyone can turn to a variety of text-to-image tools to produce realistic-looking images. Some people have now decided to use them to create fake images depicting the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, and are selling them on Adobe Stock.
Although these images are labeled as “generated by AI” in the image library, the disclosure is often not carried forward when it is downloaded and posted elsewhere online, including in news articles run by small-time outlets.
