Shutterstock Studios: Volume Won’t Fix AI’s Data Scarcity Crunch
The headline alone signals where the training-data conversation is heading: labs have hoovered up the open web, and simply scaling…
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AI Training Data
New DATA Foundation Enters the Training-Data Supply Fight
Another entrant is staking a claim on the training-data bottleneck that's kept token prices climbing for frontier labs. The framing…
Getty-OpenAI Licensing Deal Reframes CuriosityStream’s Archive as AI Fodder
Getty's tie-up with OpenAI is the latest proof point that licensed visual and factual archives command real money from frontier…
Training-Data Deals Now Span $5M to $250M, Signaling a Two-Tier Market
That two-order-of-magnitude spread—$5 million to $250 million—tells you the training-data market has stratified fast, per qz.com. Commodity annotation and scraped-web…
Machine Unlearning: The Licensing Bill Nobody Priced In
If courts and regulators start forcing labs to actually delete learned representations of copyrighted or improperly sourced data, not just…
Analysis: Copyright’s Three-Step Test Squares Off With AI Training Data
A new Wolters Kluwer commentary argues that the international three-step test—requiring exceptions to be limited to special cases that don't…
Shutterstock Expands Licensed Data Deals as AI Labs Hunt for Clean Training Sets
Another expansion announcement from Shutterstock signals that the licensed-data supply chain for generative AI is still being built out, not…