Alamy uses a Quality Control (QC) team process to detect and reject AI-generated imagery submitted by contributors, classifying such images as 'Unsuitable Material' and removing them from the platform. The company has publicly stated it does not accept any imagery wholly or partially created by AI generation tools.

Alamy's contributor help pages and official blog state that the QC team reviews submissions and will reject or remove images found to be AI-generated. The policy covers images created by tools such as Midjourney or those using Generative Fill, while minor AI-assisted retouching (such as denoise) on original photographs is permitted. Alamy has acknowledged that AI-generated content is not always labelled and can be difficult to identify at a glance, indicating that detection relies on human reviewers rather than a fully automated AI detection system.