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Shutterstock is integrating DALLE-2 into its stock photo offering.

Backstory: Last year, Shutterstock sold images and metadata to Open AI to help train it's DALL-E models.

Details: The integration will let Shutterstock users generate (and sell) images based on criteria they input. Notably, Shutterstock will ban the sale of AI-generated art that's not created with its native DALLE-2 integration.

Shutterstock is also launching a "Contribution Fund", paying artists when their work is part of the training data that it sells to companies such as Open AI.

Why it matters: We're about to see the first at-scale instance of what goes down when GPT-3 provides alternatives to human output.

The fund is a test of how humans in these situations may get compensated, and I don't think it'll be enough. Payments are based on % contribution to a dataset, and given how big these datasets are, most creators will end up with chump-change.

Separately, by banning other AI-generated content, Shutterstock stands to eat away at the likes of MidJourney and Stable Diffusion. They may have great tools, but Shutterstock has distribution, which is critical as rivals such as Getty entirely ban AI-art.

Features & products hot off the press

Big tech

• Amazon lets users make payments through Venmo 

• Lyft relaunches monthly subscription at half the price 

• Apple updates App Store rules to take a cut of boosted social posts   

• Apple devices now support Nintendo's classic game controllers 

• SpaceX will launch its satellite internet for vehicles in December 

• Microsoft is bringing Age of Empires to iOS and Android 

General and early-stage

• Wikipedia adds features to make editing more fun 

• Artiphon releases Orba 2, an updated music creation device 

• Ikea ships a smart-home hub and updates to its Home smart app

• Bumble open sources its AI that detects unsolicited nudes 

• Beyond Meat rolls out its steak substitute in grocery stores

• Bolt launches a virtual shopper assistant

• Dropbox launches Capture, a Loom competitor

Getting 1% better at building product

• UX - Five ways to address complexity in your product, by Casey Accidental

• New user funnels - What is a good activation rate, by Lenny's Newsletter

Broader tech happenings

• Opening up. India orders Google to permit third party payments in Play Store

• Lord Disney. New seasons of Doctor Who will be streamed on Disney+

• What a buy. GitHub reaches $1 billion ARR

• Ghastly pups. Pokemon ships Greavard, a new ghost dog Pokemon

• Inefficient growth. Google's revenues grow while profits shrink

Courtesy of mindless Twitter scrolling

@ChrisJBakke

@shreyas

And that’s a wrap for today. Stay tuned for more!

- Amol