AI-generated models spark job fears and image rights battle in fashion world
AI-generated fashion models can cut photo-shoot costs by more than 90%, Reuters found, raising concerns among agencies over future image rights and jobs.
- Fashion brands are slashing production expenses by over 90 percent using AI-generated models. About You is rolling out Scayle Studios to generate digital assets for retailers, producing 190,000 outfits in the past month alone.
- Industry leaders like Zalando have rapidly implemented AI imagery in marketing, shutting down two Berlin photo studios last year and eliminating more than 340 jobs. Fast-fashion giants are reducing their reliance on human models for e-commerce shoots.
- Confidential contracts reviewed by Reuters reveal major labels like Calvin Klein and L'Oreal sought rights to manufacture AI replicas without additional payment. Legal expert Melanie Howard of Los Angeles law firm Loeb & Loeb warned such clauses are "dangerous in its ambiguity."
- London-Based model Adot Gak warned, "If we don't speak up about this, in the next two years the whole industry will just be bots." The British Fashion Model Agents Association is pushing for an AI code of practice requiring explicit model consent.
- While the New York State Fashion Workers Act restricts modifying model replicas without consent from June 2025, global legislation struggles to keep pace. Experts warn young talents signing away AI rights at age 20 could face consequences ten years later.
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Artificial intelligence radically transforms the fashion industry, allowing companies to create virtual models almost impossible especially for real people and to reduce the costs of photo sessions by more than 90%. However, technology threatens the jobs of professional models and raises legal problems regarding the use of their images without consent or additional remuneration, Reuters reports, following an investigation of the contracts used b…
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‘If we don't speak up about this, in the next two years the whole industry will just be bots’
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