Photobucket is in Negotiations With AI Companies to Licence 13 Billion Images

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Image and video hosting website Photobucket is reportedly in talks with AI companies to license its content for the purposes of training.

Image and video hosting website Photobucket is reportedly in talks with generative artificial intelligence companies to license its content for the purposes of training algorithms.

“We need to pay our bills, and this could give us the ability to continue to support free accounts,” Leonard tells Reuters. “We’ve spoken to companies that have said, ‘we need way more,'” Leonard says. One buyer wanted over a billion videos, more than Photobucket has. “You scratch your head and say, where do you get that?”that large tech companies like OpenAI and Google are running out of data to harvest for AI products.

 

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