Getty Images plans to restructure under Chapter 11 and go private by year-end, as AI-generated imagery and free stock libraries erode its paid-licensing business. The premium photo agency's troubles mirror wider disruption across creative industries.
OpenAI is rolling out an invisible text watermark called textGrain for ChatGPT and Codex output in the EU, while API customers worldwide can now switch the marking on for chosen models.
In China's AI-generated comic drama boom, production costs plunged from 30,000 yuan to 3,000 — yet many creators say profits never arrived, because cheaper content means fiercer bidding for attention.
Producers unleashed hundreds of thousands of AI-generated animated mini-dramas onto Chinese platforms this year, only to see payouts shrink and studios fold. As the bubble deflates, survivors are turning to lessons from Japan's 1980s anime boom for a way forward.
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