Getty Images signs OpenAI deal to display licensed images in ChatGPT
The Facts
- Getty Images announced a multi-year agreement with OpenAI.
- Under the agreement, Getty’s licensed content libraries will appear in OpenAI search and discovery features within ChatGPT.
- The companies did not disclose the financial terms of the agreement.
- The announcement did not say whether Getty content would be used to train future OpenAI models.
- Getty’s shares rose sharply after the deal was announced, with multiple reports describing gains of roughly 150% to 200% in premarket or early trading.
- The partnership marks a shift in Getty’s relationship with AI companies after the company had previously taken legal or policy steps against generative AI, including suing Stability AI and banning AI-generated images from its library.
How left and right are reading this
- Both agree
- A lucrative Getty-OpenAI partnership was announced while the central unanswered question — whether Getty content could train future models — remained unresolved.
- They split on
- Whether the story is about markets rewarding a deal whose scope the public still cannot assess, or about a former AI critic pragmatically turning conflict into commerce.
Context
What will change for ChatGPT users?
Some ChatGPT search and discovery results may now include licensed Getty images rather than only text or other visuals, because Getty’s library is being integrated into those product features Fast Company,FoneArena,engadget.
Why did the market react so strongly?
Reports say investors viewed the OpenAI partnership as a new AI-era distribution and licensing opportunity for Getty, whose stock had been under pressure before the announcement Yahoo! Finance,WSJ,heise online.
What is still unclear about the deal?
The companies have not disclosed the financial terms and have not said whether Getty’s images will be used to train future OpenAI models, so the full scope of the arrangement remains unknown ZN.UA,FoneArena,Yahoo! Finance.
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