OpenAI Fails to Deliver Opt-Out System for Photographers
OpenAI has missed its own 2025 deadline on a tool it said would allow photographers to exclude their work from the company’s training data.
Back in May, OpenAI revealed it was working on a tool called Media Manager that would “identify copyrighted text, images, audio, and video.” The proposed program was intended to quell some of the company’s criticisms and potentially shield it from its many copyright disputes.
But news about Media Manager is non-existent with one former OpenAI employee telling TechCrunch they don’t believe it was a priority for the company. “To be honest, I don’t remember anyone working on it,” the anonymous employee says.
After DALL-E 3 was announced, OpenAI’s image generator, the company announced that photographers could opt out of AI training data. “We understand that some content owners may not want their publicly available works used to help teach our models,” OpenAI said at the time.
But photographers had to submit each piece of work they wanted excluding along with detailed descriptions, a cumbersome process.
