[supergnu]

This is purely a PR move. They don't ban AI content because of fears of legal challenges, but because they see their entire business model fall to pieces. Why would anyone license images from them when they instead can generate any image for free? They only ban AI images in order to make PR with "fears of legal challenges" in the hope that the message that AI generated content could be a legal risk will stick in the heads of people.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

I suspect that Getty makes most of their money from licensing current interest photos to news orgs.

I don't think that particular business is going anywhere (I hope -the last thing we need, is faked-up news images).

I think ShutterStock may be more threatened.