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Reviewed and published by trentmaziarz, May 11, 2026. Discovered and drafted by our automated research pipeline.
Alamy offers its image library — branded as the 'Alamy Access Collection' — to third-party AI developers and researchers for licensing as training data for machine learning models. Alamy states it shares revenue from these data training deals with the contributing photographers whose images are used.
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The Alamy Access Collection comprises over 208 million images, including 14 million images exclusive to Alamy, and is made available to AI developers for training models in areas such as image recognition and image generation. Alamy's official page for this product invites researchers and developers to request a sample dataset of 5,000 assets. The company has also confirmed it licenses content for AI applications beyond image generation, such as image recognition, voice assistance, and healthcare, and states it shares revenue from these deals with contributors.
Products affected
Alamy Access CollectionAlamy AI Training Media
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Trace Foundation. (2026). Alamy: Alamy offers its image library — branded as the 'Alamy Access Collection' — to third-party AI developers and researchers for licensing as training data for machine learning models. Alamy states it shares revenue from these data training deals with the contributing photographers whose images are used (data as of 2026-05-11) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/8aea56c3-8059-4cb9-96f6-5ceb5754a519. Accessed October 6, 2026.
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- https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/8aea56c3-8059-4cb9-96f6-5ceb5754a519
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- May 11, 2026
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Other practices by Alamy
OtherAlamy integrated its licensed image library into BRIA AI's 'Fair Diffusion Program,' a generative AI initiative where Alamy's images were used to train an AI image-generation model that attributes and compensates the original photographers when their work contributes to a generated image. Alamy announced this partnership in September 2023.RecommendationAlamy offers Smart Search, an opt-in AI-powered search tool for signed-in users that goes beyond traditional keyword matching to find relevant images based on the meaning of a query. Built with Amazon Web Services, it was launched in late 2025 and allows users to describe what they need in natural language or concept-driven terms.ModerationAlamy 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.
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