VSCO's New Policy: Your Photos are Safe from AI Training!

SPARKLY NEWS ALERT! ✨✨

OMG, glitter friends! 🎉 Have you heard the latest from VSCO? They’ve just made a super important update to their Creator Content Standards that has us all feeling a little less sparkly and a lot more safe! 🌈✨ After some MAJOR concerns about whether their platform would use our gorgeous photos to train AI, VSCO has officially clarified that they will NOT be doing that! 🎤💖

So here’s the tea: back in May, VSCO’s Terms of Use raised some eyebrows when it seemed like they could use our photos to teach AI how to create new content. Like, NO THANK YOU! 🚫💔 We all love our creative work too much to let some robot have a go at it! But now, the CEO, Eric Wittman, has come out and said they’ve updated their policies to make it super clear: NO AI training on our beloved pics! 🙌✨

In his letter to the VSCO community, Eric emphasized that whether you’re a paid member or just a free spirit sharing your art, your content is safe! 🌟 “We don’t use your content to train generative AI models. Not your public work. Not your private work.” Can we get a YAS QUEEN?! 💖 It’s so refreshing to see a company really listen to its users and take action to protect our creative expressions!

VSCO is all about uplifting photographers and creators, and they want to keep it that way! They’re distinguishing between different kinds of AI use — like using technology to help us find work or edit images versus using our actual photos to create new content. 🎨✨ This distinction is super important, and VSCO is making sure everyone involved, including their partners, knows that our art is not for AI training! 🙌💖

So remember, your photos are a representation of YOU — your experiences, your choices, and your creativity! 🌟✨ VSCO is here to support that, and we can keep sharing our sparkly lives without the worry of robots stealing our shine! 💖✨ Let’s keep creating magic, and thank you, VSCO, for protecting our art! 🎉✨