He’s speaking with CNBC senior media and tech correspondent Julia Boorstin.
Allen just offered $10 billion to buy ABC and other TV assets from Disney, so expect some questions about what he wants to do with those networks.
Getty CEO Craig Peters describes what he thinks makes a great photo:
Whether it’s computer generated or otherwise, it’s the one that makes you stop, think, react, have emotion, engage. That’s a great photo.
Peters was asked by an audience member if copyright laws need to adapt for AI, and he very much agrees.
“If we want it just to stay stagnant, it’s going to ultimately not match up to the world we’re living in,” he says.
Peters says Getty is working with partners and newsrooms on content authenticity initiatives ahead of the 2024 election but there’s no silver bullet to solve the misinformation problem posed by generative AI.
Peters says the company looked at paying them each time their photo is used to create a specific AI image, but its models couldn’t nail the attribution. “We tested out a bunch and didn’t find them to be sufficient,” he said.
Instead, they’re using a proxy: “What proportion of the training set does your content represent, and how has that content performed in our licensing world over time?” That’s a good measure of quality and quantity, he says.
He’s speaking with Verge EIC Nilay Patel, too.
Trend alert: they’re probably going to talk about AI. Getty just launched an AI image generator — and it’s suing Stability AI for copyright infringement. Best of both worlds.
says Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott. So is he confirming that Microsoft is developing AI chips with AMD? “I’m not confirming anything,” he adds. But it sure sounds like something is in the works.
“We’re doing a bunch of interesting work with [AMD CEO Lisa Su], and I think they’re making increasingly compelling GPU offerings,” Scott says. “I think they are gonna become more and more important in the marketplace in the coming years.”
— and whether everyone will stop visiting news sites once AI just sums them up.
“I don’t think that’s actually the thing anybody wants,” he says.
He doesn’t have a specific answer yet, but he says transparency will be key. “You at least understand what’s going on,” he says. “It’s not arbitrary and capricious, and you know how to viably run your business.”
He’s speaking with The Verge’s EIC, Nilay Patel. Expect a lot of questions on AI — and probably some pointed questions about whether he’s working with AMD on custom chips.
