Datasets – new revenue opportunity

Tomas Speight

2 years ago

Panthermedia is addressing the impacts of AI on image creation and opportunities for photographers

Datasets are the next step

We already offer “static” AI images but clean datasets are the next step.Dynamic AI-Image generation has already been on the horizon for quite a while. We believe the impact on our industry and photographers in particular will be significant. That is why it is critical to be familiar with the subject and important to seek put the new opprtunities it will present and bring to us.These are the key facts and aspects on the subject of Datasets

Law and court cases

Law is slow to catch up and in some cases not protecting copyright holders the way we think it should.Link: techcrunch.com – 28.6.22

The unclear legal environment is opening the door to court battles and case law developing prior to laws themselves. Links:

Greg Rutkowski as reported by heise.de – 13.10.2022

theguardian.com – 16.10.2022

smithsonianmag.com – 6.9.2022

engadget.com – 30.11.2021

Persons have rights relative to images of them being used for AI training, even if they are invisible in the result.

Link: Have I been trained?

But basically a dataset is a subject collection – images on a specific topic with good metadata. Not all datasets touch on privacy rights. Check your collection to see which images might make a good dataset. Depending on the specificness of the subject matter the number of necessary images varies very significantly.A good dataset is consistent accross all aspects that make it useful. The consequences can not yet all be seen. But we are fairly sure that the impact on the stock photography industry in general and photographers in particular will be significant and become evident in the near future.

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