#getty-images

#getty-images

Ramos is a Barcelona-based staff photographer for Getty Images, with a career spanning news, international conflicts, and high-profile sports coverage-including the Winter Olympics. Ramos received an Award of Excellence in the Sports Photographer of the Year category for his full portfolio of sports coverage from 2023, including the World Athletic Championships, Tour de France, Alpine Ski World Cup Finals, surfing sessions in Portugal, and more.

Stability AI, the creator of popular AI art tool Stable Diffusion, was largely victorious against Getty Images on Tuesday in a British legal battle over the material used to train AI models. The case originally looked set to produce a landmark ruling on AI and copyright in the UK, but it landed with a thud and failed to set any clear precedent for the big question dividing AI companies and creative firms: whether AI models need permission to train on copyrighted works.

AI image generators can create unique visuals within seconds from a single text prompt. Tech companies train these image generators on millions of images scraped most commonly from across the internet without attribution -- or, too rarely, licensed from individual creators or collections. When an AI image generator spits out an image from a user prompt, it's taking inspiration (or, in some cases, outright copying) from every human-generated image it's been trained on.