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Apple recently announced an agreement with Shutterstock to authorize the use of millions of images to train its artificial intelligence models. In addition to Apple, technology companies such as Google, Meta and Amazon have also reached similar agreements with Shutterstock to develop visual AI engines. It is reported that this agreement was signed at the end of 2022 and is expected to cost Apple up to 50 million US dollars. Previously, it was reported that Apple was negotiating with major publishers to explore the use of news article content for similar large-scale language model (LLM) training. Condé Nast (Co…