#5SmartReads - March 17, 2023

Madison on copyright infringement, salary postings with job openings, and a sailing trip to Antartica

Madison works as a full-time freelance writer across numerous verticals. She's recently added Part-Time College Counselor to her work life, which has pushed the launching of Grief Cards (a line of sympathy cards that don't suck) to the back burner. This spring, you can find her in working from a Kansas City-area Panera or on the kickball field as captain of her team, Babe Ruthless.

Getty Images Is Suing The Creators Of AI Art Tool Stable Diffusion For Scraping Its Content (The Verge)

We’re becoming accustomed to seeing AI this and AI that, but I don’t think quite enough pause has gone into the public’s consideration of where exactly this artificial intelligence originates.

Here’s yet another instance of copyright infringement in the AI world. Getty Images is one of the larger commercial websites; its business model hinges on selling very specific usage rights to a vast collection of images. Here, The Verge deep dives into what the future of generative AI might look like and how this situ…